Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!csdev!ll1a!cej
From: cej@ll1a.UUCP (Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rodime performance with new driver
Summary: Wrong Interleave
Message-ID: <3712@ll1a.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 00:43:37 GMT
References: <431@nikhefk.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Lisle, Il.
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In article <431@nikhefk.UUCP>, paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) writes:
> I formatted the drive (Rodime 45Mb - SE) using an 1:1 interleave
> (that's what the program advised me to do). 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 hate to go thru the entire
> process of installing the driver with a lower interleave... 
>         Paul Molenaar

	Sorry to say it, but reformatting the drive is what you will
have to do.  I'm not sure why the program suggested 1:1 for the
format on a SE, but it shouldn't have.  (For those who haven't used
it, the Rodime installer "suggests" an interleave.)

	There is a small "table" on the display that indicates that
the Mac II interleave is 1:1, the SE interleave is 1:2, and the Plus
interleave is 1:3.

	In short; you're right, it is slower.  You are now getting
the worst performance possible from your drive.

...att!ll1a!cej   Llewellyn Jones   [Just me, not AT&T]   cej@ll1a.ATT.COM

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