Re: Using CiderPress to copy a volume image to a card formatted for Windows...

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

a2retro <rg.jones@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael, while implementing and converting  Robert Justice's IIc
> smartport drive project over to use MicroSD I found it advantageous to
> sometimes zero out the media. I used a Western Digital diagnostic
> program to do that.
> 
> You can get it here  -
> http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=502&sid=3&lang=en
> 
> There is an option to write zeros to the drive which takes about 4
> minutes per GB.

Interesting--that's just about how long DISKPART kept the card busy when I
CLEANed it. 

I'll take a look at the utility. 

-michael  -  NadaNet 3.1:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon