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- Subject: Re: ESDI tuningdir
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- From: djlewis@ualr.edu
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:49:00 GMT
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- In article <1j6n8eINNp0g@shelley.u.washington.edu>, djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes:
- > Does anyone know of any software that can test different interleave
- > settings on an ESDI hard disk using the DTC 6280SZ controller in a
- > Z386/25? My 150MB hard disk apparently measures a Data Transfer Rate
- > of 53KB/sec, compared to 900KB/sec for a newer SCSI drive in the
- > same machine. The interleave looked like it was 1:1, so I used PREP
- > to set it to 1:1 and reformatted to no avail. None of the software I
- > usually yse to test various interleave settings wants to work with
- > an ESDI drive. Any suggestions? Besides using PREP and trying 2:1,
- > 3:1,... :)
- >
- > --
- > "Moby" Dick O'Connor djo7613@u.washington.edu
- > Wash. Dept. of Fisheries *When the going gets tough, the tough go fishing!*
- This does'nt sound like the drive format. 1:1 is fine. I use the same drive but
- on a Z386/25 if you don't have the bios setup properly the computer is a slug.
- Try cache=on q=1 or 16 if you have the cache ram installed. I use the same
- controller and drive and the transfer rate in the zenith Z386/25 was very
- respectable ( don't remember the figures). Now I use it in a DTK 386/33 and it
- works great.
- Don Lewis
- <djlewis@ualr.edu>
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