LWELCH@COLGATEU.BITNET (12/12/89)
>> I have two Seagate hard drives (a ST-138N & a ST-296N) in a homebrew setup, >>and found that 11:1 interleave gave the best results with DiskTimer GS on both >>drives (I used SCSI.Hacker to low-level format them). How many different >>interleaves did you try? I was able to obtain Read test times comparable to >>yours, and Seek test results in the 55-58 range. >I think I stopped at 10:1 because the reads were getting consistantly longer. >Dave >dhom@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu -------------------- Is there a consensus on what the best interleave is for a Seagate 296N SCSI hard drive without Transwarp GS? How about with a Transwarp GS? I only have 1 Meg, so I can't use Disktimer. Anyone with timing results, please mail them to me. Also, for you SCSI gurus. If I set the interleave on my drive, write several files to it, make a backup to take (image backup), and then format a drive to a different interleave & restore to the new formatted drive from the tape, will the files be stored as the old interleave or the new one? Will this mess things up? Thanks a lot! Chip | Chip Welch "Apple ][ Forever!" | | Chipmunk Computer Systems | | CU Box L3058 BITNET: LWELCH@COLGATEU.BITNET | | Hamilton, NY 13346 GEnie: C.WELCH3 | `----------------------------------------------------------------------------'