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- Some simple guidelines for running hd.com program to detirmine hard disk
- interleave.
-
- 1. detirmine disk param. eg. hd /i or hd /i/2 (for second dr)
-
- 2. detirmint no of sectors equiv for 10 mb (on a seagare 225, with
- 614 cyl and 4 heads, 10 mb is approx 300 cyl
-
- 3. run test as hd /s 300/r 300. this seeks out 300 cyl as fast
- as possible, steps back verifying each track and then
- reads data from 300 cylenders. returning the time reqd
- for each of the abovd.
-
- 4. subtract slow step time from total read time (to get rid of it
- as a factor in transfer rate calc.
-
- 5. divide 10 mb by result from 4 in seconds, this is the effective
- transfer rate of the hard disk.
-
- 6. the maximum possible transfer rate is approx 622 kb/sec as
- detirmined by the design 5mbit/sec and 8bit per byte
-
- 7. approx numbers then are as follows
-
- time kb/sec interleav
- 17 610 1:1
- 34 305 2:1
- 50 203 3:1
- 66 151 4:1
- 83 120 5:1
- 100 100 6:1
-
- 8: the interleav should be 2 or 3 to 1 for a ibm AT and 4 to 1 for
- the PC or XT.