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- From: chungh@armory.enet.dec.com (Henry Chung)
- Subject: Re: What program tells HD interleave factor?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.005513.26362@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Sender: news@ryn.mro4.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: 23 AUG 92 20:47:42
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- In article <1992Aug23.003408.220@weyrich.UUCP>, orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich) writes...
- >In article <1992Aug19.015845.7696@ra.msstate.edu> cbb1@ra.msstate.edu (Chris B. Borchert) writes:
- >>Can someone tell me a good program to determine the optimum interleave
- >>factor for any HD? I have used HDTEST 1.28 (and it works great!), but
- >>it says it only runs on RLL drives. I cannot find a newer version of
- >>this program. Are there others for MFM and IDE drives?
- >
- >Spinrite will do this for MFM and RLL; I don't know about IDE's. [My version
- >of spin-rite predates IDE's].
- >
- >
- Norton Utilites' Calibrate will work on MFM and RLL drives. Never try
- to change the Interleave for IDE and SCSI drives. IDE and SCSI drives
- have 1:1 interleave set at the factory.
- /Henry
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