Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!sarathy
From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Low-level formatting of hard-drive
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Date: 14 Dec 88 19:20:52 GMT
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A lot of the postings assumed that the OMTI 1:1 interleave controller is
RLL.  Is this true?  I had assumed that it was MFM.  (The salesman told me it
was SCSI but was compatible with any hard drive --- yeah, right).

Oh, and thanks to everyone who answered my question by posting and sending mail.
I was able to successfully reformat the hard drive.

Norton SI gave the Disk Index a boost from 2.3 to 3.6 for a Seagate ST251 (39ms)
on an Everex 3000 (16 MHz 386 with a 64K 45ns cache which gives it an SI of
18.4).  (Norton Utilities V4.0)

Now, can anyone tell me how I can measure the controller's actual disk transfer
rate?