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From: corywest@swordfish.rice.edu (Cory Richard West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive Confiuration and Western Digital card....
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Date: 23 May 91 18:39:41 GMT
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Hello again.  I was wondering if anyone could answer my questions
about my hard drive/controller card setup.  I have an Epson Equity II,
XT compatible *with* cmos setup.  I'm running an ST 251-1 and a Western
Digital controller card that came in the computer (without
documentation of course).  The drive will only format to 20 Megs and
I can't figure out why.  Also,  I want to cahnge the interleave, but
I can't figure out how.  Does the WD card need to be physically jumpered
to support a 40 meg drive?  I don't know what the model of the card is, 
but it is long (but obviously an 8 bit card).  When I low level format the
drive, I get the option listed, but I can't change them.  The prompt is:

(AH) Physical drive 0
(AL) Interleave 3
Press y to format drive with interleave 03?

Pressing anything other than y aborts the format.  How can I change the 
interleave to six?  Also, it's only formatting through cylinder 619 
(heads 0-3 I believe).  How can I get it to use the rest of the disk
space?  Is there an automated program that might be better at this than
the built in controller card program?

Well, I think I've included all the technical information that I have.  
Please Email me your responses and I will post a summary if it's something 
that should be addressed.  At any rate, thanks again for all your help.

corywest@rice.edu

P.S.  At least I've gotten it this far...