Sector Interleave

[Mike Stein]

Nothing wrong with what you wrote that I can see; excellent tutorial IMO.

m

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Sector Interleave


>>> Oversimplified remedial tutorial:
>>> Ideally, the system reads a sector, does what it has to do with the content, and goes back for the next one, and can read every sector of the track in a single revolution.
> 
>  From: "Paul Koning" <paulkoning at comcast.net>
>> Your writeup was aimed at floppy disks, but interleave may also appear 
>> on hard drives.  I don't remember it in reasonably modern systems, but 
>> it shows up on CDC 6000 systems.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
>> ----- Reply ----- Definitely an issue with IBM PC/XTs and clones; I 
>> recall testing every new combination of HD and controller for most 
>> efficient interleave before I delivered to the client.
> 
> 1) Are there any examples newer than PC/XT 5160?
> 
> Although, obviously, completely hidden from the user, is it still used on 
> anything "modern"?
> (Should ALL verbs be changed to past tense?)
> 
> 2)  Is it used on anything besides spinning rust?
> 
> 3)  Besides all of my examples being floppy, what else should be 
> changed/corrected in what I wrote?
> 
>