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From: toms@oakhill.UUCP (Thomas Spohrer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Formatting a Hard Disk
Message-ID: <952@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:32:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.952
Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:32:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jul-87 04:28:39 EDT
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Keywords: format hard disk


     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.

     Would someone please enlighten me as to how I might change the 
interleave either given the software I have or any other suggested software.

     Hardware:
	   20 MB CMI-3426    CMI Hard disk drive (ST506/412)
           WD1002S-WX2       Western Digital Drive controller
           IBM-PC 640k, 1 Floppy
           Orchid Turbo EGA (7.2 MHZ 286).

     Software:
	   FDI.COM           Low level formatter, came w/ drive&controller
           DOS 2.1           FDISK and FORMAT.

    Thanks in advance.


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Motorola Semiconductors                     Tom Spohrer
Austin, Texas                {seismo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!toms