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From: stoppani@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Peter Stoppani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL drives and interleave factors
Message-ID: <5930028@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 00:12:15 GMT
References: <1382@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>>The other product, a program written by Jim Bracking and distributed
>>in an archive called HDTST125, told me the interleave was 4:1 and that I
>>could get slightly better performance by re-interleaving at 5:1.
>>
>>Dick O'Connor
>>Washington Department of Fisheries
>>Olympia, Washington  98504

Be sure to run HDTST125 several times or at least twice.  I ran it on my
ST251-1 and it reported an interleave of 5:1 the first time.  Since I 
knew it was really 2:1 I ran it again and HDTST125 got it right (additional
runs also got 2:1).

Pete...