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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Steve Gibson's "SpinRite" product
Keywords: Non-destructive low-level format; interleave optimization
Message-ID: <989@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 22:49:48 GMT
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Organization: Acorn Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
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Has anyone used Gibson's "SpinRite"?

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!)

"SpinRite" claims it can perform a non-destructive low-level format
while optimizing interleave.

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
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