Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-palace.UUCP!r.a.a. From: r.a.a.@pro-palace.UUCP ("R.A. Anonymous, Jr.") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Corvus/Copy II+ Message-ID: <8906160837.AA12044@crash.cts.com> Date: 15 Jun 89 14:28:48 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-sol!pro-newfrontier!pro-nfmail01!pro-harvest!pro-palace!r.a.a.@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 I am the person who formatted the Corvus drive with Copy II+.. We have an older drive (pre-ProDOS) at school, and instead of doing what our local Apple dealer told us was the only way to Corvus+ProDOS, trading in the drive for $800 store credit, we contacted a Tom Vier out of Washington, DC, who sent us his Corvus ROM upgrade (the name of the upgrade eludes me for the moment.. The cost was $75, and I read about it in a back issue of A+ dealing w/ networking (A+: RIP!!)) The instructions with the chip told us to use a 'standard' ProDOS disk format routine, such as that found in Copy II+. It worked out fine, but realize that the format did NOT do a 'full track format', but indeed just wrote new bitmaps and directories. It also didn't do any sort of verification, which took about 15 minutes to run with Copy II+. [+++]=====================================================================[+++] +++ +++ +++ Ed Kern +++ +++ r.a.a.@pro-palace +++ +++ --or-- +++ +++ User #1 @TPD GBBS +++ +++ /215/678-5741 +++ +++ 2400-300 baud +++ +++ +++ [+++]=====================================================================[+++]