bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) (03/08/88)
For everyone's information, I purchased a 20 MB Tandy hard card for my
1000 SX and was less than impressed by the performance. While I liked
the PC, the disk seemed very slow (Norton SI=1.4 for PC, 0.5 for disk,
and 1.1 overall). I got the idea to play around with interleaf factor
and was very suprised with the following results....
interleaf spintest Norton Disk index
--------- revs/track bytes/min ------------------
-----------------------
2 18 29002 0.5
3 17 30719 0.5
4 4 130560 1.4
5 5 104448 1.4
The local Radio Shack computer center recommended an interleaf of 2
and they obviously were way off - a couple of hours playing around
resulted in an amazing improvement at zero cost.
I figured you folks out there in Tandy land would be interested in
knowing that the hard card is not junk if you can set it up right.
(yes, I KNOW I could've gotten a third party disk for less than the
$599 I paid - please don't remind me - I had my reasons at the time).
Anyway, I'm sitting here on my SX quite happy with the performance
and I figured others might be interested in making their SX's faster
too.
--
Vince Skahan Boeing Computer Services - Phila.
(215) 591-4116 INTERNET: bcs212%psev@boeing.com
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