Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: spintest.com, shows interleave & transfer rate of hard drive Message-ID: <3815@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> Date: 15 Aug 88 17:53:12 GMT References: <3648@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) Distribution: na Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 25 In article <3648@bsu-cs.UUCP> tekgvs!tekcrl!tektronix!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!ibmbin kenns@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Kenn Stump) writes: >When run, spintest accesses your hard-drive, and show the following >information: > >SpinTesting... > > 4 : revolutions to read a track, >192,000 : bytes transferred per second. > >At least that's what it showed for my hard-drive. > There is a version 1.2 of spintest which is more accurate than whatever the (unidentified) version was/is. It is also larger (over 3 kbytes) because a lot more verbiage is included explaining interleave and interleave-testing. I personally formatted a drive at 2:1 interleave, ran the earlier spintest and was told it was a 3:1 interleave. Version 1.2 reported the correct 2:1 interleave factor. By the Way - spintest doesn't report the interleave factor for my CDC Wren IV SCSI drive, but it does report the bytes transferred per second: 1044,480 (!). keith