ir1@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (ir1) (01/15/88)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Help with a Seagate 251 (slow speed) Summary: Expires: Sender: Reply-To: ir1@sdcc6.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Neal Beck) Followup-To: Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: University of California, San Diego Keywords: Help. I just put a Seagate 251 40M disk into my ATT6300. This replaced my Seagate 225 20 M disk. The new disk is partioned into a small C drive and 2 20M big partitions (D and E). I also was told I needed a new controller so I put in a Western Digital WX1. Low and behold my access time almost doubled (measured by the Norton SI and by my stopwatch). The specs on the 251 are better than those for the 225 so this shouldn't happen. I suspect the interleave is at fault, but Seagate doesn't seem to want to tell me what the interleave should be. Can anyone tell me what the optimal interleave for my disk combination is? Thanks in advance Neal Beck Dept. of Pol. Sci. UC San Diego beck@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu or beck@ucsd.BITNET