Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sigma From: sigma@jec302.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: how do i change the interleave on a ide drive? Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 02:21:05 GMT References: <1991Feb11.205602.6901@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <15082@uudell.dell.com> Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: jec302.its.rpi.edu quimby@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Tom Stewart) writes: >Sooner or later, many IDE's will either need re-low-leveling, or >replacement. I, for one, would rather re-format. The new version >of Seagate's Disk Manager (4.02?) is supposed to allow formatting >IDE's, but I haven't tried it yet. > I've seen Version 4.3 of Disk Manager for RLL drives, but not really used it. I'm very concerned about the question of reformatting IDE drives, however - I'm not too pleased to hear that if something goes wrong, Conner is going to say, "Sorry, you're screwed." Can anyone shed more light on this problem? -- Kevin Martin sigma@rpi.edu