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From: rlwald@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Robert L. Wald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Serial safety; HD inteleave
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Date: 5 Oct 90 05:25:42 GMT
References: <1990Sep20.123824@miguel.llnl.gov> <1990Sep25.042714.25505@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Sep30.060736.28468@dhw68k.cts.com>
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In article <1990Sep30.060736.28468@dhw68k.cts.com> emmayche@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Hartman) writes:
>In article <1990Sep25.042714.25505@ccu.umanitoba.ca>,
>umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know if Norton Utilities allows you to look at/change the
>>interleave without reformatting?
>
>Generally speaking, this is not possible to do. 

  Actually, you can do this on a PC. There is a good package called
Spinrite II which does this. It reformats each track as it goes,
preserving the data and correcting any looming errors way before
the error correcting circuitry will break down over them. But
as far as I know, its not available for the Mac. 


-Rob




"Its a good thing frogs can hop, or I'd be Gone With the Schwinn!"

rlwald@phoenix.princeton.edu