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- From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
- Subject: Re: Disk Interleave?? What the general rule of thumb??
- References: <BzMu6G.L4p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec26.041143.11505@elektro.cmhnet.org>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:06:46 GMT
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- charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith) writes:
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- >In article <BzMu6G.L4p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>I posted about this several days ago and got very little reponse.
- >>
- >>Some time ago there was a discussion of the proper interleave for disk
- >>under OS/2. I only got part of the discussion and seem to remember that
- >>the appropriate interleave was 1 greater than the bios recommended as the
- >>optimum. Any better facts on the subject??
- >>
- >>The disk to be used specifically is the WD 2200 214 meg IDE drive with
- >>at least 512k HPFS Cache(unless someone wants to let me in on the 'best' size
- >>cache for 16 meg systme memory??)
- >>
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- I would like to thank everyone who has responded and corrected my misguided
- ways. It seems that the talk of best interleave was about ESDI/mfm/some other
- disk than an IDE, so that question is leave the thing a lone!
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- However, I've seen very few recomendations for Cache size for a 16 meg system.
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- What do you folks use, I know a lot of you have 16 meg systems.
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- Thanks,
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- Todd
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