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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
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Date: 18 Aug 88 20:59:37 GMT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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In article <1011@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>
>Excuse me, but SPINTEST doesn't report the interleave. It reports the
>number of revolutions it took to read a track. These are not the same
>thing.

He's right - SPINTEST reports the number of revolutions to read a
track. I took the assumptive leap of faith that these are the same
I'll go off to my corner to think about why they are or aren't
the same...

Somebody asked me to post the newer version of SPINTEST. When I
determine that it's "freely distributable" I'll send it to Rahul
for posting.

keith