Re: Formatting a profile

[you@somehost.somedomain (Bart)]

David, Partick:
Is all of that truely needed?  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.  
To do this.. I had to create bootable floppys via the *.do (they are treated 
like dsk files by ADT) files available from the Sara emulator project:
Download Sara:
 http://www.mirrors.ausmac.net/ftp/Emulation-SW/apple/apple-iii-emulator/
get the do files:
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/sara.html

Then I read up on the /// at the Apple II History page (BIG thank you to 
Steven Weyrich for his work!)for background and to get the flavor of this 
unique box
Apple II History:
http://apple2history.org/history/ah01.html

Then I followed the links to the Washington Apple Pi /// FAQ page:
http://www.wap.org/a3/default.html
to learn how to use the software I had just recovered.
What this entalied was creating a bootable floppy that contained the Driver 
for a ProFILE drive.  Then  installing the ProFILE card in slot 4 (default), 
booting and using the  System Utility to FORMAT the Profile just the way you 
would a floppy.  It seemd to work and I have stored many a file to both drives 
since then.
-Bart