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From: aburt@isis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Interleaf - How?
Message-ID: <1927@isis.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 14:20:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: isis.1927
Posted: Mon Aug 31 14:20:39 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Sep-87 06:02:18 EDT
References: <1358@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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In article <1358@gryphon.CTS.COM> cjnston@pnet02.CTS.COM (Chuck Johnston) writes:
>... a 200% speed increase on a Deskpro 286 by using a comercial
>program that searches for the optimium interleave factor. (in his case a 4.)
>
>The program is called: HTest/HFormat
>List Pric:  $89.95
>Address: 123 N. First Street  Ashland OR 97520
>Company: Paul Mace Software.

$90 for a one-time-run program?  Ouch!  Have any netlanders used this package,
e.g., on different drives, etc.?  I'd be willing to pay for a service wherein
I call up, tell them my drive type and system configuration, and they tell me
what they've found -OR- if they have no data then I download a one-shot program
which figures it out and I tell them the numbers (for future callers).  I
think $10 would be a fair price for that.  (But $90?  I don't see that you
get much more.)

>halle@homxc.UUCP (J.HALLE) writes:
>>How do I find out the interleave factor of my disk?  And how do I change
>>it if I want to?  (Yes, I know I better back it up first.)  Thanks.
>>
>>J. C. Halle			...!ihnp4!homxc!halle

The recently posted hard disk tools had a program, spintest, which reported
number of revolutions required to read a track.
-- 

Andrew Burt 				   			isis!aburt

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