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From: tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Interleave factor on a 6300
Message-ID: <2635@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 07:43:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: whuts.2635
Posted: Wed Aug 12 07:43:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 03:32:21 EDT
References: <2928@mtgzz.UUCP> <1844@ttrdc.UUCP> <300@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com> <2999@oliveb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Summary: OR..........you could buy the HFORMAT program from Mace Inc.

In article <2999@oliveb.UUCP>, enchant@oliveb.UUCP writes:
> > The default interleave factor for hard disks varies from manufacturer to
> > manufacturer, and I don't know of any sure way to find it other than to
> > read the manual for the specific hard disk you are using, or perhaps to
> > contact the manufacturer.
> 
> 
> For those programmers out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write a program
> to calculate interleave.  The following should be the basic algorithm:
OR...
you could simply buy the HFORMAT *set* of utilities from Mace Inc.
Included is interleaving timers, a program for telling you the
*optimum* interleaving factor given your
disk/head/controller/buffers/DMA/CPU/clock combination.
And low and high level formatters to implement this optimum
factor.