Re: Formatting a profile

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Bart <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:

> David, Partick:
> Is all of that truely needed?

To do a low-level format, yes.

> I have 2 ProFILE drives (both 10 meg) in case. 
>  I finally got a /// up and funtional. and that required formating the
> ProFILEs.  Now I do NOT mean LOW LEVEL format of course,  but a wipe and
> reinitalize in SOS.  

That isn't a "format" - all it does is overwrite the directory (usually
called an "erase" operation by Mac OS and GS/OS).

If you have any bad blocks on the ProFILE, the only way to recover them
is to do a low-level format.  If the bad blocks are in a critical area
(e.g. the first seven blocks) then the drive is useless without doing a
low-level format.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz