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- From: winders@aux.support.apple.com (Scott Winders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: the interleave ratio
- Message-ID: <winders-270792221837@macwinders.support.apple.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 05:24:14 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.163659.17808@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Jul27.204910.23018@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.204910.23018@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
- tlod_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Thede "Bo" Loder) wrote:
- >
- > In <1992Jul27.163659.17808@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jason Wasson) writes:
- >
- > >I would like to increase the interleave on my 20meg hard drive; is
- > >there any danger of my hard drive becoming less reliable if I increase
- > >the interleave to 1:1? Also does it matter if I use the standard apple
- > >HD setup program or would I get better results from something like
- > >Silver Lining (I have an old internal miniscribe)?
- >
- > > Thanks,
- > > Jason Wasson
- > > jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
- >
- > >--
- > > Jason Wasson
- > > jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
- >
- > I would uses silverlining, v5.32 or above if you have it. However, by
- > increasing the interleave to 1:1 from 2:1, you will most likely lose storage
- > space. If you are using a slower machine such as a mac II or any of the
- > compact models except the SE/30, I highly doubt that your scsi transfer times
- > will increase, and may infact decrease significantly. The reason for the
- > interleave factor is to make up for the speed of the machine. Unless you
- > are using a fast mac, you will actually lose performance, as the disk will
- > have to spin extra rotations to read the same information.
- >
- > So, if you are using the drive on its original machine, I would leave the
- > configuration as is, for reliability and the best performance.
- >
- > Silver Lining is definitely nice, as it allows many features not available
- > with HD setup.
- >
- > -Thede <tlod_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
-
- Why in the world do you think changing the interleave ratio would change
- the amount of storage space available on the hard disk??????????????????
-
- Scott Winders
- winders@aux.support.apple.com
-
- "My opinions are my own, not my employer's"
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