Nothing wrong with what you wrote that I can see; excellent tutorial IMO. m
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin" <ci...@xenosoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@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" <paulkon...@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? > >
