Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!nic.stolaf.edu!uafhp!mamos From: mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: how do i change the interleave on a ide drive? Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 91 19:27:56 GMT References: <15082@uudell.dell.com> <6556@testeng1.misemi> <2373@travis.csd.harris.com> Sender: news@acc.stolaf.edu Organization: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 21 leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes: >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. > Use Norton Utilities 5.0 CALIBRAT.EXE - it seems to do much the same function as Spinrite, but works on IDE drives (mine anyway). Try it - Norton Utilities should be bundled with DOS as far as I'm concerned... ============================================================================== Mark _E_ Amos | University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu | mea1@engr.uark.edu | (emphasise the Computer Engineering please) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ==============================================================================