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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: how do i change the interleave on a ide drive?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 14:00:22 GMT
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In article <WOOD.91Feb15191558@wood.Software.Mitel.COM> wood@Software.Mitel.COM (Dale Wood) writes:
> DO NOT LOW LEVEL FORMAT YOUR IDE DRIVE!!!!  I have a SEAGATE 1144 that

I have seen this "warning" many times & understand why, *but* what 
specifically about an ide makes it immune to the problems seen by many 
other drives that periodically benefit from the likes of spinrite to 
"re-align" drifted heads (or something to that effect)? 

And what are we poor souls to do in that case? ... I am not looking @ 
modifying the interleave, but I do need a way to test/reformat non 
destructively a non-new drive (that is currently displaying errors) normally 
corrected with spinrite.


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