reichert@motcid.UUCP (Chuck KD9JQ) (11/03/90)
Just learned something the hard way. When the manufacturer says you don't have to low level format an IDE Drive...they really mean don't! I just got my Toshiba 100M HD and carefully followed instructions. Use the DOS 4.01 FDISK, FORMAT or my AMI BIOS Diag Formatting. Unfortunately AMI's Opt. Interleave Format is a big no no! Even if you stay with the 1:1 Interleavebad things happen. Took 4 trys before the format took...actually it didn't. The Interleave optimizing screwed up the translation table and I am now getting Seek errors big time. Luckily I'm within the 30day exchange period and they`ll exchange the old for a new one. They can do a new low level format and enter the transaltion table. So for any one with a new IDE HD, just use DOS 4.01 FDISK and FORMAT, or ONTRACKs' DM Utility. Don't run any HD tests that are "Destructive"..even if you haven't configured the HD yet! Chuck Reichert KD9JQ