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From: slb553s@nic.smsu.edu (Barber Scott L)
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Subject: AE Vulcan Drive
Date: 21 Mar 1994 10:00:25 -0600
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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)...

Merry christmas everybody...

SERKER