Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!clyde!masscomp!alang From: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Formatting a Hard Disk Message-ID: <1991@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 19:03:12 EDT Article-I.D.: masscomp.1991 Posted: Fri Jul 24 19:03:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 17:38:15 EDT References: <952@oakhill.UUCP> Reply-To: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe) Organization: MASSCOMP - Westford, Ma Lines: 23 Keywords: format hard disk In article <952@oakhill.UUCP> toms@oakhill.UUCP (Thomas Spohrer) writes: > > I would like to experiment with different interleaves on my hard disk >but I found out that I do not know how to modify the format. > > I was under the impression that the interleave factor was specified >by the low level format but I find that the low level format program supplied >with the disk and controller does not have any options to allow me to specify >a different interleave factor. > > [ I have a ] > WD1002S-WX2 Western Digital Drive controller The interleave factor is specified when running the low level format routine that is in the ROM on the WX2 controller. The problem is that there are probably over 50,000 systems with a WX2 controller, EACH with a different version of the ROM. (In fact, seriously, of all my friends with WX2 contollers, none of us have the same version of the ROM). Western Digital, however, seems to be a responsive company, and you could try asking them for whatever version they think is the latest. Alan