[Coco] disk drive/controller formatting question

tim lindner tlindner at ix.netcom.com
Wed Aug 24 10:51:10 EDT 2005


Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Larger values of interleave may be easier for the drive.

I find this difficult to believe.

Interleave is setup _before_ the write track command is issued. Once the
command is issued, you are only pushing bytes to the controller. No
calculations are done during the write track command.

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tim lindner
tlindner at ix.netcom.com                                            Bright



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