Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!samsung!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!gwoho From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: how do i change the interleave on a ide drive? Message-ID: <1991Feb18.213459.7262@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 18 Feb 91 21:34:59 GMT References: <15082@uudell.dell.com> <6556@testeng1.misemi> <2373@travis.csd.harris.com> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 32 mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) writes: >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 ***** thats right, it seems to. in fact, it doesn't. it does not do any low level on an ide drive. it does not even know the proper geometry of the drive, so how could it do anything like adjust interleave, etc? maybe it does the same thing as spinrite, which is pretend to do a llformat and interleave. in fact, norton calibrat does not do either to an ide. all it does is a media analysis to see if the drive has undetected bad spots. > 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 >==============================================================================