Applied Engineering Vulcan IIGS User Manual page 37

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1:1 Interleave
7:1 Inlerleave
I' rogr:ams diITer in their ffic:.1hods of gening information
from disk. So while one progr:am that CoIn I't. - ad 3nd
process [n(ommion very quickly may work more
c(ft."'CIivcly 31 a I:J imcrlc;lvc, a slower progr:am ma y
nl'Cd
a
15 :1
ratio
1 0
work
oplirnall y_
TIle vulatns arc fonnanc(\ With an inter1eave that
will
run
mo st applicat iOns ; u a fairly qu ick speed If, however, you
W:Orll 10
cxpcnmcm and
see
how your
fT\OSt
often u.scd
programs perform at djffercm intcrle:lves, you can change
the Vu1c:'n 's Interleave and time your V3rious progr:ams
pcrformllig slar\dard opcr:a lions (opening files ,
spreadsheet ca lculations, formaning, ctc.). Keep in mind
1hoit while
aile
of rour progr:ams may perform oplinully a1
a 8'\cn
mlcrlca,'c.
anod'\er
flU)'
suffer a sigmfk ant spo.. " t.>d
dCCTe:lse.
Using In'erleaver
Follo wing Is a lis!.
of
the th ings to keep in mind when
using Inlerlca l'cr'
tJ Make a nOl:e
of
the interle~ve to which your drive WlIS
SCt when shipped.
You
may want to set it ba ck to the
factory set interleave.
Q
Interlca\'er will noc destroy the data slOroo o n the
Vulcan drive jf run oollTlll.lly. n ut do
no!
stop the
program until It has Ilnished .
o
o
o
o
o
Wanf/"g: DO NOT RESET WlIll.E THE
PROGRAM IS RUNNINGI lnterleaver is copying
and rewriting tracks. If yoo StOp the program in
mid-SHearn. your data will be
COrnJ
ted.
You
can run the program from the Vulc:ln
or
from
floppy.
The program on uke up to
30
mlnutcs dcpcndms upon
the size of your
disk
~nd
how full il Is.
Ikfore you run the program, run your IT\06t freque ntly
used programs and time them doing various tasks.
Changing the interleave docs
no!
help a drive thaI uses
track oching. The 100 Meg Vulon
uses
track caching.
Do not SCt the
in1crlc~vc
below the Native interleave
(shown on the Imerle:lve Changer screen) or
pcrfollTlll.nce will suffer
Hemem
Un
es.s
you un rsta v.: at you 're
doin .
ou could do
",ore
barm tbaH QOd..
When yoo run Interleavcr, you 'll
s(' ' 'C
a version of the
Interleave Changer screen following
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Once you 've SCI the desired lIltcrlell\'e using the arrow
keys or [he I.
J.
K and M keys. press Return and
Ie!
the
program do the res\. Once finish<-od, quit the program and
then lime your programs again.
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