Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!software.mitel.com!wood!wood From: wood@Software.Mitel.COM (Dale Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: how do i change the interleave on a ide drive? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 00:15:58 GMT References: <1991Feb11.205602.6901@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <15082@uudell.dell.com> <6556@testeng1.misemi> Sender: wood@Software.Mitel.COM Organization: Public Switching, MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada Lines: 24 In-reply-to: huis@testeng1.misemi's message of 15 Feb 91 18:34:14 GMT In article <6556@testeng1.misemi> huis@testeng1.misemi (Stephen Hui) writes: > You can do a low level format on IDE drive with the right software. > I got a DiskManager 4.3 for SEAGATE drive, which allow me to low level format > my ST-157A. DO NOT LOW LEVEL FORMAT YOUR IDE DRIVE!!!! I have a SEAGATE 1144 that looks real nice sitting in a box ready for return to dealer. The dealer suggested that I take the lattest release of Disk Manager 4.3 and let it install my drive. It let me do a low level format of the disk (error in communication with dealer) and since then the drive will not boot my system. After phone calls with seagate, it was determined that the low level format has disstroyed the bad sector map in the disk (notice how there is no bad sector list on the IDE drives ) Just so happens (I guess) that one of the bad sectors in my drive was an important one :-) However, to take some of the scare out; I also have an older IDE dirve that I did a low level format on and it still works fine. (But never again will I do that) ...Dale Wood wood@Mitel.Software.COM