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

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

Veritas wrote:
> 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?

I expect that it is quite different--along the lines of Disk ][
formatting.

-michael

Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."