Re: 2090A speed

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From: Jerry Kallaus
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 02:47

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In article <1154@esunix.UUCP>, blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
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>From this I have to conclude that interleave on the A2090A has virtually
>no effect on performance. Surprising!
>

The Amiga 2090 User's Guide has this to say about interleave:
(on page 22)
Interleave    ....should be "0" for ST506 drives....

(and on page 38, under Specification/Performance/HardDisk ST506)
Sector Interleave   1:1

I suspect that the mountlist interleave is ignored for an ST506 device.
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From: kallaus@leadsv.UUCP (Jerry Kallaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2090A speed
Summary: 2090A may ignore interleave
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Date: 14 Dec 88 02:47:47 GMT
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