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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
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Date: 16 Aug 88 13:38:35 GMT
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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