Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!umd5!uvaarpa!virginia!watt.acc.Virginia.EDU!evm2y From: evm2y@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Ernest V. Mathews III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's "SpinRite" product Keywords: Non-destructive low-level format; interleave optimization Message-ID: <1069@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 16 Aug 88 13:38:35 GMT References: <989@acornrc.UUCP> Sender: acc@virginia.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: evm2y@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Ernest V. Mathews III) Distribution: na Organization: Academic Computing Center, University of Va. Lines: 21 In article <989@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes: >Has anyone used Gibson's "SpinRite"? I have it and I like it a lot. >Having run the recently posted "spintest" program, it appears that my >Seagate ST238-R has been formatted with a suboptimal interleave factor >of 4. ("spintest" claimed it took 18 revs to read a track! Bleah!) The posted version of SpinTest gives me results different from the version supplied with SpinRite. >Alternatively, does anyone know of any other software which performs >this task? Nope. Nothing I have heard of does everything SpinRite does. >Bob Weissman Ernie Mathews evm2y@virginia.edu