Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:18082 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:744 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!browning From: browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Browning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's "SpinRite" product Keywords: Non-destructive low-level format; interleave optimization Message-ID: <5029@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 88 04:57:56 GMT References: <989@acornrc.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Craig Browning) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 In article <989@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes: >This feature in itself would probably make this product worth the $59 >list price, assuming it really speeds up my disk transfers. >Alternatively, does anyone know of any other software which performs >this task? >Thanks, >Bob Weissman Another program I posted which I didn't see show up is ILEAVE16, now reportedly ILEAVE17, or iau.exe, which measures your interleaf and gets the best interleaf, and will do a non-destructive re-format. I would exercise caution if I had anything non-standard, e.g. RLL. Good luck finding it, it seems to ba around a lot of places or maybe someone else can post it. Craig