Re: AE Vulcan Drive

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

slb553s@nic.smsu.edu (Barber Scott L) writes:


>	Found out some new info from AE...just for all you Vulcan folks who might not know it.  THere IS a low level formatter in the Partition manager software...

>	Here goes...when you launch Part.Manager from prodos, you get 4 cchoices at the top of the screen..: modify, format, interleave,a nd quit.

>	Move the highlight to format, and type 'AE' (without quotes).

>	You'll get a message saying something about not finding a boot partition, and it asks you if you want to find it.  say yes to all the prompts, and it locks out bad blocks on the drive.

>	Again, you all might know this already, but i paid the 1.50 a minute over three months to get it (bout $70 bucks in calls before they forked over the secret)...

Shit, now I feel bad.  A few years back I snail mailed AE and got the same
response.  Only cost me $.29 :)


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