Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!rick From: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: HD controller low-level format program Message-ID: <1463@wet.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 90 16:25:08 GMT References: <778@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <1990Aug16.185942.9612@sj.ate.slb.com> <2143@sud509.ed.ray.com> Reply-To: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 21 In article <2143@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes: >last night, and when I formatted the drive, the only question it asked >me was "interleave (default:0)". I entered 0, and away it went, and >formatted the drive. > >I wonder why it didn't ask me anything else? > >Is "0" the correct value to use for interleave? This setup is running >on a 386/25 with 8mb of ram, and will be used to run Esix. You didn't set the interleave to 0. You specified 0 to select the default interleave, whatever that may be. You can't have an interleave of 0. That would imply that you could read a full track on the drive in 0 revolutions. I suppose that would give you some amazing access times, but would require a great deal of buffering on the controller... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rick Rutledge {hoptoad|ucsfcca|claris}!wet!rick rick@wet.UUCP "Voici le secret." dit le renard. "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible aux yeux." -Antoine de St. Exupery, _le Petit Prince_