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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: How to reformat my HD?
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.164012.25566@nevada.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:40:12 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.071441.2446@agate.berkeley.edu> rudiak@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
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>Help!  I'm trying to reformat my Quantum 100MB hard drive with a different
>interleave (to see if it's faster)

Quantum (and Conner, for that matter) HDs can't take a low-level
format.  They ignore the SCSI "format" call.  The drives are formatted
at the factory because the voice-coil seek mechanism requires
alignment information to always be available, and there's no way the
drive could put this information back on the disk if it was erased.

Even if you could change the interleave, the drive has a built-in
cache.  That would provide the fastest possible performance at small
or large interleaves.

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