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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: What program tells HD interleave factor?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.021425.22748@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug24.005513.26362@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:14:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug24.005513.26362@ryn.mro4.dec.com> chungh@armory.enet.dec.com (Henry Chung) writes:
- >
- >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
-
- You can't non-destructively change the interleve of most SCSI drives,
- however you *CAN* destructively reformat them with some interleve
- other than 1:1. Normally, the controller BIOS or setup program
- bundled with your controller can be used to do this.
-
-
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