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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Formatting a Hard Disk (changing interleave, response)
Message-ID: <5774@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 21:58:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 21:58:05 1987
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Reply-To: ayac071@ngp.UUCP (Bill Douglass)
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Summary: Track Buffering?

In article <2503@tekgvs.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>I'm in the process of evaluating Western Digital's WD-1006-WAH which
>has track-buffering and can do a 1:1 interleave. 

Can some kind soul e-mail (or post) me an explanation of track-buffering.
Does this input in an entire track for each read.  And does this actually
slow down through-put on a fragmented disk?  And is this the technique used
on IBM's PS/2 line.  And ... (oh, shut up already!!)

Thanks,
     Bill Douglass
     ayac071@ngp.UUCP