Re: Profile low lever formatting...who're you gonna call?

[hatespam@hatespam.com (Veritas)]

bieling@terra.es (Jorge Chamorro Bieling) wrote:

>Profile Hard Drive: Info, Maintenance, and Formatting
>by Patrick Schaefer (March, 2000)
>
>Good news first: everything in a Profile is serviceable. The drive
>mechanism is a regular Seagate ST506/412 (IBM AT drive),
>Low-level Formatting
> ...
>Formatting a Profile requires an Apple ///, some software and a special
>formatter chip that replaces the Z8 chip on the logic board. 

The ST506 is an MFM drive. Is it possible to use an old PC, with an
MFM controller, and a PC low level format utility? I think I still
have all this stuff, circa 1985.

Or is the low-level format information for the Profile somehow
different than for a PC?