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Some simple guidelines for running hd.com program to detirmine hard disk
interleave.
1. detirmine disk param. eg. hd /i or hd /i/2 (for second dr)
2. detirmint no of sectors equiv for 10 mb (on a seagare 225, with
614 cyl and 4 heads, 10 mb is approx 300 cyl
3. run test as hd /s 300/r 300. this seeks out 300 cyl as fast
as possible, steps back verifying each track and then
reads data from 300 cylenders. returning the time reqd
for each of the abovd.
4. subtract slow step time from total read time (to get rid of it
as a factor in transfer rate calc.
5. divide 10 mb by result from 4 in seconds, this is the effective
transfer rate of the hard disk.
6. the maximum possible transfer rate is approx 622 kb/sec as
detirmined by the design 5mbit/sec and 8bit per byte
7. approx numbers then are as follows
time kb/sec interleav
17 610 1:1
34 305 2:1
50 203 3:1
66 151 4:1
83 120 5:1
100 100 6:1
8: the interleav should be 2 or 3 to 1 for a ibm AT and 4 to 1 for
the PC or XT.