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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Toshiba MK234FCH IDE Update
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.192746.15087@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Keywords: IDE
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 19:27:46 GMT
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>Do not use the ROM BIOS Format, Interleave or any destructive test on an IDE
>drive! My new AMI ROM BIOS now includes the Interleave with the normal Head,
> Cyl, 
>Sector Format, which really screwed things up. 
>
>So as a rule, just partition IDE drives!

According to the tech at a local computer clone
shop, there is a new version of Spinrite out that
can handle IDE drives. True or false? The old
Spinrite wouldn't work due to the buffering and
sector translation of IDE drives.






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