Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u35828 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Date: Wednesday, 26 Jun 1991 10:21:08 CDT From: Message-ID: <91177.102110U35828@uicvm.uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: Low Level formatting on Model 30 References: <1991Jun25.182750.6732@ms.uky.edu> In article <1991Jun25.182750.6732@ms.uky.edu>, jayh@ms.uky.edu (Jay Hofacker) says: > >How do I perform a low level format on a standard PS/2 Model 30 hard drive? >I can't find the hard drive bios to do a "g=xx00:5" in debug like on an XT/AT, >and the setup disk doesn't seem to have anything about low-level formating. >Are there any shareware programs that will perform a low-level on the Model >30? > According to the text file that came with my disk optimizer (OpTune), it said: "The micro-channel PS/2 computers released by IBM after April, 1988, do not allow user programs to change their interleave setting. There- fore, the Tune-Disk function will abort with an error message if you attempt to run it on one of these machines. This is not a serious problem since these high performance machines are always set to the correct interleave." Could this also apply to your machine? John Serrano-Bitnet: , Internet: Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No Mister Bond, I expect you to die!"