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From: francois@welch.jhu.edu (Francois Schiettecatte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: interleave factor for Mac Plus
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.134800.2012@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 13:48:00 GMT
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore Md.
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I have a question about interleave factor for hard disks. 
Given the speed of the Mac Plus when accessing the SCSI 
bus, what would be the optimal interleave factor I should 
use to format my hard drive.

I have a standard Mac Plus with a 80 Mb quantum drive. 
I know enough about interleave factor to know that if 
it is less than optimal, performance can degrade a lot.
On my PC I could use the formating program to test the 
hard drive and let the program choose the best interleave
factor but I have looked at both Silverlinning and the 
Apple SC setup and neither offer that possibility, of 
testing the drive I mean, they can both set the interleave
factor.


Does anybody have any thoughts, what is Apple's suggestion on
the matter?


francois