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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rodime performance with new driver
Message-ID: <3f2d3f05.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 21:45:00 GMT
References: <431@nikhefk.UUCP>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <431@nikhefk.UUCP>, by paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar):
> Immediately after noticing the new Rodime installer/driver software
> showed up on the net, I downloaded the program and installed
> it on my Rodime 45Mb drive for my SE. I formatted the driving using
> an 1:1 interleave (that's what the program advised me to do).
> I created four partitions and went thru the hours long process
> of reinstalling all software.
> 
> Then I ran Disktimer II, which showed me shocking results. The drive's
> writing performance decreased dramatically. Now: >660 (whereas
> the Dataframe list shows something like 55). I knew the Rodime
> was slower, even with the older driver, but this is terrible...
> 
> Anybody similar experiences? Is it just Disktimer or is it really
> the driver? I hate to go thru the entire process of installing
> the driver with a lower interleave...
> 
> [wonder if anybody will notice this message between the next-bombardment]
> ...
> -- 
>         Paul Molenaar
> 
> 	"Just checking the walls"
> 		- Basil Fawlty -
Don;t use 1:1 on anything slower than 16Mhz.
Steve Bollinger
Unifersity of Michigan
billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu