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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: lowlevel ide drive.
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.064952.14315@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 06:49:52 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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i have tried a half dozen programs to llf a ide drive--all of them
pretend to llformat it, none of them really do.

also i am interested in adjusting the interleave.
there are a number of programs i have tried that pretend to adjust the
interleave too.
people say that this should not need to be done and its already 1:1.
it is not 1:1 on my drive. its 2:1. i would like to know how to adjust it
so i can make it best for whatever os i use.
it would be dumb if ide drives are stuck at 1:1 for a lot of people, because
they run os that can not keep up.

some people have reported destroying their ide drives via llformating.
apparently their programs were not just pretending to llformat; they must
really have been doing it. would one of those people email me a copy of
the program? 

thankyou in advance.

gwoho liu.