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From: psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT&T 6300+ add-in disk problem!
Message-ID: <990@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 03:51:25 GMT
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In article <982@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, gpw@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (george.p.wilkin) writes:
> From article <1537@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>, by wilson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Samuel Wilson):
> > Ahem.  This friend of mine...  has an AT&T 6300+ with an extremely
[ Poor disk performance [

> DO YOU(er I mean your friend) HAVE THE CORRECT DISK INTERLEAVE
> 
> I have found this to be sooo far off befor that you would do well to check it.
> 
> How do I do this??   Spinwrite or the mace utilities Hoptimum will do it
> for you......   YOU WILL HAVE TO BACK UP DATA FIRST....
> 
Good suggestion George - one correction.  Spin-write (I don't know
about the others) will reformat a disk in place without requiring
a backup.  Of course, backups are a good idea, and I know one person
who trashed their disk using Spin-Write, but it was worked great for
me.  The difference between the correct interleave and one too small
is dramatic.

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