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From: karsh@nicmad.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Question about ESDI Disk Controllers
Message-ID: <2372@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 22:33:55 GMT
References: <788@aucs.UUCP> <794@vixie.UUCP>
Reply-To: karsh@nicmad.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Organization: Nicolet Instruments, Biomedical Division
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Keywords: Speed Interleave

In article <794@vixie.UUCP> paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes:
>
>ESDI disk configurations do not all have 1:1 interleave.  Part of it depends
>on the processor speed, bus speed, etc, since somebody has to be able to
>"catch" data coming off the drive.  If you use 1:1 and the rest of the
>system can't keep up, you wait 1/3600th of a second for the next sector to
>come around AGAIN when you're ready for it.

  Wow!  Where do you get disks that fast?  :-).  Seriously, I think that
1/3600 *minutes* is a typical duration for a disk rotation.  Most hard disks
spin at about 60 revs per second.
-- 
Bruce Karsh
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