#: 13516 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    17-Dec-91  14:01:30
Sb: #13514-Hard Drive Analysis
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: Lee Veal 74726,1752 (X)

Lee -

The best approach is empirical... that is, try it and see how it goes.

A good trick is to format only the first several cylinders of your hard drive,
and then run a tool like 'megaread' or whatever to check the times for reading
a block of bytes/sectors. Then, reformat with a different interleave and try
again. Use what's best for your system. This is a composite function of hard
drive, interface, cpu speed, interrupt latency, and driver effiency - that's
why there's no set formula.

Pete