Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!van-bc!mplex!fff From: fff@mplex.UUCP (Fred Fierling) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: sector interleave Keywords: query, iau, interleave, WD1006 Message-ID: <358@mplex.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 01:19:32 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd Lines: 15 We recently replaced an ailing IBM disk controller with a Western Digital WD1006 in an IBM AT running Xenix 2.2.1 and used a program from comp.binaries.ibm.pc called "iau" to change the interleave. To our surprise the program, which performs interleave adjustments non-destructively on DOS disks, trashed the Xenix filesystem on the disk. I don't understand why this would happen. Seems to me the order of the sectors in a track is of little concern to operating systems. Can anybody explain why this wouldn't work? Also, anybody know of a utility that non-destructively changes disk interleave and runs under Xenix? -- Fred Fierling uunet!van-bc!mplex!fff Tel: 604 875-1461 Fax: 604 875-9029 Microplex Systems Ltd, 265 East 1st Avenue Vancouver, BC, V5T 1A7, Canada