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- From: maarten@fwi.uva.nl (Maarten Carels)
- Subject: Re: the interleave ratio
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:32:10 GMT
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- Interleave is only meant to adjust disk speed to computer speed, so to have
- a slow machine use a fast disk effeciently.
- The interleave you choose *NEVER* changes anything on the reliability or
- capacity of the disk, in other words:
- your disk will not grow or shrink
- you never get problems or loose them.
-
- Wrong values will get you a disk that looks slower than it could.
-
- For most normal (means usually somewhat older) disks, without cache in the
- disk controller, you can start with the values below:
- Mac+ 3 or 4, depending on the disk
- SE or Classic almost always 2
- any other 1
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- If the disk has a track cache on board, an interleave of 1 will work perfectly.
- Examples of this kind of disk are the Quantums, Fujitsus.
- SyQuest drives also have a cache.
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- Hope this clears confusion
-
- --maarten
- --
- In real life: Maarten Carels
- Computer Science Department
- University of Amsterdam
- email: maarten@fwi.uva.nl
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