In article <1dluq7INNh0i@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> mikesch@phys.ksu.edu (Michael Schulz) writes:
>When I ran Norton Utilities Caklibrate on my harddrive, (123 meg IDE), It said that my hard drive had diskmapping problems , and calibrate would not run on that drive. Does anyone no how I can fix this problem. I am not as concerned about not being able to run calibrate, as I am about the fact that ihave bad disk mapping.
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You'll have to turn off disk caching for the drive. If you're running
SMARTDRV, the command "SMARTDRV C-" is sufficient -- it's OK if the
program is loaded, so long as it's not caching the drive you're trying
to test. For other caching programs, you'll have to RTFM.
BTW, on an IDE drive, CALIBRAT will (wisely) refuse to test or change
the interleaving. Changing the interleave factor is a low-level
formatting function and should not be attempted on IDE drives.
CALIBRAT will perform a surface analysis, however.