teg@orc.olivetti.com (Tom Griner) (08/25/88)
I have a Micropolis 1355 with an adaptec ESDI controller. Will spinwrite
be useful / effective with this combination?
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bdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdmoss@ttidca.TTI.COM (Les Moss) (08/27/88)
I have Spinrite and it does not work on any disk with a buffered controller (probably any controller with 1:1 interleave). Thus it is not very useful for high performance disk systems. (My controller is a WD1006RAH). -- Les Moss Citicorp TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, ext. 2982 Santa Monica, CA 90405 moss@ttidca.tti.com
pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) (08/27/88)
In article <3100@ttidca.TTI.COM> moss@ttidcb.tti.com (Les Moss) writes: >I have Spinrite and it does not work on any disk with a buffered >controller (probably any controller with 1:1 interleave). Thus it >is not very useful for high performance disk systems. (My controller is a >WD1006RAH). >-- >Les Moss Well, I have Spinrite, and an Adaptec 2322 controller running a Maxtor ESDI drive. With tracks so big (18KB/track), every defect eats a lot of space. We tried Spinrite, and it worked just fine. 1:1 interleave, buffered controller and all (1MB/sec read data throughput). Spinrite eliminated all but a couple of the marked defects. I'll report on whether any problems show up over time. Pete -- OOO __| ___ Peter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises OOOOOOO___/ _______ USPS: 19611 La Mar Court, Cupertino, CA 95014 OOOOO \___/ UUCP: {hpda,pyramid}!octopus!pete ___| \_____ Phone: 408/996-7746