Re: Formatting a profile

[Stephen Shaw <stephens@apple2.org.invalid.za>]

On Mon, 6 May 2002 10:11:16 +1200, David Empson wrote:

> Bart <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote:
>
>> David, Partick:
>> Is all of that truely needed?
>
> To do a low-level format, yes.
>
>> I have 2 ProFILE drives (both 10 meg) in case.
>>  I finally got a /// up and funtional. and that required formating the
>> ProFILEs.  Now I do NOT mean LOW LEVEL format of course,  but a wipe and
>> reinitalize in SOS.
>
> That isn't a "format" - all it does is overwrite the directory (usually
> called an "erase" operation by Mac OS and GS/OS).
>
> If you have any bad blocks on the ProFILE, the only way to recover them
> is to do a low-level format.  If the bad blocks are in a critical area
> (e.g. the first seven blocks) then the drive is useless without doing a
> low-level format.

I have emailed the formatter ROMs to somebody. If you want to I'll put them on
www.apple2.org.za. Please let me know.


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