Re: ProFile hd question

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Steve Jensen (sjensen@eis.calstate.edu) wrote:
: I have a 10 meg Profile that I'm trying to resuscitate.  It will not boot
: or format and I know the interface card is ok.  I can cat some of the files
: on it so I think a low-level format may heal it.

: What should I use to do a low-level format?

Oooooh!  I would try everything in my power to heal the drive without a
low-level format if I were you!  There is a slight problem with the
ProFile.  As I understand it (rumor, gathered over the years from several
sources), the ProFile has to be formatted using a (ready for this?) Apple
///.  Count the slashes:  that's Apple /// as in use a utility program in
SOS.  Rumor has it that not only is it necessary to use SOS (and thus an
Apple ///), but that it is also necessary to change a PROM in the drive
controller in order to actually get it to format.

I hope all of this isn't actually true, since I have a 5Mb ProFile hooked
up to the Lisa, but this is what I have heard...

Good luck!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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