Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekig!tekig5!larryha
From: larryha@tekig5.TEK.COM (Larry Hattery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CMS SD60 Hard disk
Message-ID: <2557@tekig5.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 88 19:16:00 GMT
References: <2067@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: larryha@tekig5.UUCP (Larry Hattery)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <2067@svax.cs.cornell.edu> wiriyan@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Tjipta Wiriyan) writes:
>
>1. I remembered a few people mentioned that it comes preformatted with 1-3
>   interleaf. However, mine came preformatted with 1-5 interleaf, and the
>   default (which according to the manual is the optimal) interleaf is 1-5
>   for both Plus and SE, and 1-3 for MacII. Is the software that came with
>   my hard disk an older version? It seems that its version is v3.2m, is
>   this an old version?

I've tested mine out and found it to work quite well at 4:1 interleaf
but when I tried 3:1 it started getting worse.  My test was to format
the drive, copy a complete system folder onto the disk ~586k then to
duplicate the folder.  At 5:1 it took ~20s, at 4:1 it took ~18s, at
3:1 it took ~23s.  DiskTimer results show ~128, ~128, and ~16, about
1/2 the speed of a DataFrame XP, not bad for less than 1/2 the price.

I've been using mine for over a week this way with no problems and it
seems to perform quite well.  I bought mine from MacLand (800)333-3353
for $801 including COD delivery in 2 days, and I got a new mouse pad.  
Their prices are going up to ~$850 soon so you better hurry.  I also
called Hardware House who had the same price, but they didn't have COD.

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Larry Hattery										larryha@tekig5@tektronix