Plus Hardcard 20 software?

[Jim Leonard]

Gene Buckle wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jim Leonard wrote:
>> I was attempting to reformat it so that I could get more speed out of 
>> it (interleave is 5:1 on the disk but my 8088-2 clone runs at 9.54MHz 
>> and can do faster).  I borked it trying to use HDPARM.  Thankfully 
>> Jerry Wright was able to find the original diskette and I have 
>> restored the drive to service! Awesome!
>>
> 
> Jim, the next time you need to adjust the interleave on a drive, use 
> SpinRite.  It does transfer rate testing and will come up with the best
> interleave for your configuration.

Spinrite has been put into doubt over the last decade for me due to many 
factors.  That notwithstanding, I did attempt it and Spinrite says that 
the controller is translating and that it won't touch it.

The truth is that the on-board BIOS clears the screen and displays a 
message essentially saying "your low-level format attempt was stopped so 
that the existing bad sector mapping table could be preserved, press 
ctrl-alt-delete" (although powering the system off is actually what is 
required to continue).  So that's the real reason SpinRite won't touch it.
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