formatting a Maxtor 1140

[S.MIKES]

In article <May.7.14.46.34.1989.26277 at athos.rutgers.edu>, marsella at athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) writes:
> 
> A friend is about to install a Maxtor 1140 (140 meg, 15 heads, ~28ms)
> on his Unix-Pc (which has been upgraded to 5.1).
> 
>     What is the appropriate interleave? 

Stacy,

You should try interleave 1:1 or 2:1, probably 2:1 will work better.
In case you don't yet know, your friend's machine will not properly
utilize the Maxtor 1140, unless it has first received the motherboard
modifications so that it will recognize heads 8-15 and cylinders beyond
1024.

Steve