olender@cs.colostate.edu (Kurt Olender) (02/24/91)
This message is a clarification of one I posted earlier. The basic problem is that I upgraded from a 386 to a 486 recently. I just moved the Conner IDE CP-3104 hard drive and IDE interface card over to the new machine. Since then I've had intermittant problems with the disk that cause system shutdown. The Conner tech support people say I should do a new high level format, i. e. format /s, on the 486, but really couldn't give a good reason why that would work. Are there any IDE experts out there who can tell me why (or why not) the speed/BIOS/etc of a different machine would affect a high level format of an IDE drive? As far as I can tell, the high level format records some disk parameters on the boot record, but that shouldn't depend on the host machine. Something else might happen with an IDE though that I don't know about.