Hard Drive
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Hello all.
Does anybody know of a utility to optimize a hard drive's performance?
I am looking for something that would allow me to change the interleave on
my scsi hard drive's.
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James via AutoPilot
With Motorola Inside and Intel Outside
James,
Look in the Amiga File Finder (GO AMIGAFF) for SFMT.ARC. It allows you
to low level and change the interleave of a SCSI drive. However, be aware
that some drives will accept the format with interleave command, but not
really do anything but report back they're done. In other words, you
can't change the interleave and/or low level format them.
Don
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James via AutoPilot
With Motorola Inside and Intel Outside
James;
Trying to "change the interleave" on a scsi drive is mostly a waste of
time. Few if (any scsi drives) will actually reorganize their way of
storing data as a result of a "low level" format.
-bill
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James via AutoPilot
With Motorola Inside and Intel Outside
Bill's right. Modern SCSI drives are all capable of delivering data fast
enough that interleave isn't the issue it used to be on old ST-506 drives.
Also, since SCSI drives have rather extensive firmware control and elaborate
"on-disk" formatting, they tend not to make control over things like hard
formatting options available to users (in context, although it seems pedantic,
it makes perfect sense…the issues on-drive SCSI controllers deal with are a
LOT more complex than the old "interleave" era issues).
John