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From: toms@oakhill.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Faster PC Hard Disks
Message-ID: <859@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 16:59:15 EST
Article-I.D.: oakhill.859
Posted: Tue Apr  7 16:59:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 03:20:32 EST
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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     How would one go about upgrading a PC-XT to a faster hard disk?
The only faster drives I have seen advertised (avg. seek <30ms) are for
the PC-AT.  Is such performance available for a standard PC or PC-XT?  
Can AT drives/controllers be modified for the PC?

     Furthermore, if such hardware upgrades are possible what kind of
software problems will arise?  

     By the way, if one reformats the hard disk for an interleave factor
of less than the recomended 6 how does one know how close to the limits
of the hardware they are?  How fast has anyone gone successfully?

     Thanks in advance for any answers to these questions or any other
disk performance information.

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Motorola Semiconductors                     Tom Spohrer
Austin, Texas                {seismo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!toms