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  2. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  3. Subject: Re: What program tells HD interleave factor?
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug23.003408.220@weyrich.UUCP>
  5. From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
  6. Date: 23 Aug 92 00:34:08 GMT
  7. Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
  8. Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
  9. References: <1992Aug19.015845.7696@ra.msstate.edu>
  10. Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
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  13. In article <1992Aug19.015845.7696@ra.msstate.edu> cbb1@ra.msstate.edu (Chris B. Borchert) writes:
  14. >Can someone tell me a good program to determine the optimum interleave
  15. >factor for any HD?  I have used HDTEST 1.28 (and it works great!), but
  16. >it says it only runs on RLL drives.  I cannot find a newer version of
  17. >this program.  Are there others for MFM and IDE drives?
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  19. Spinrite will do this  for MFM and RLL; I don't know about IDE's. [My version
  20. of spin-rite predates IDE's].
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