Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!pbinfo!ill From: ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Conner IDE drives Message-ID: <1990Sep2.183550.1937@uni-paderborn.de> Date: 2 Sep 90 18:35:50 GMT References: <1990Aug29.183630.25402@uni-paderborn.de> Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, West Germany Lines: 32 ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims) writes: >ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: >>Yes, this is alright! IDE-Drives DO NOT NEED LOW LEVEL FORMAT ! DO NOT DO THIS! >I've changed the interleave on a 40meg CONNER in a COMPAQ DESKPRO 386 in order >to change the interleave. Seems to work just fine (used SPEEDSTOR), IDE >interface and all. Don't shout too loud or it may decide not to work :-) . >This is an older unit. >-- > No matter who you elect, the Government still gets in. Sorry, I didn't wanted to shout too loud. But in the past I had many troubles with IDE-Drives. The most Important thing is, that they have a build-in Defectlist-management, and it is possible that you ran into problems, using normal ll-formatter when they erase the list. The Speedstore ll-formatter is one of better ll-formatter, and it may be posible, that this one is not erasing the list. BTW, I am wondering how do you changed the Interleave of you IDE-Drive, I always thought, that these Drives are all running with Interleave 1:1 ? (Hardware !) The IDE-Drives aren't so old: At the beginning of 1989 they were started to sold from Miniscribe (first Distributor as I know...) Well, hope to write new stuff for further IDE-Discussion, CU, Markus ******************************************************************************** Markus Illenseer I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid, I can't do that. 4790 Paderborn ,United Germany Email: ill@uni-paderborn.de ********************************************************************************