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From: bernerus@chalmers.UUCP (Christer Bernerus)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: m & n values for disks
Message-ID: <190@chalmers.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 13:07:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  7 13:07:52 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 00:37:25 EST
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci, Chalmers Univ. of Techn. Sweden
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Thank's for your info about m & n value calculation.
I ran your program to check our system's speed.
We're running a VAX 11/780 without FPA and 4.1BSD.
The figure i got is 589 BPS which i think is reasonable.
It would be interesting to know if anybody else has made your test
on a machine similar to ours, with & without FPA.

If one determines the m factor based on this configuration and a
RM05 disk you'll find that m should be about 3.25 which implies
that the interleave factor should be 4, not 3. Perhaps 3 is adequate
if a FPA is used.