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From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
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Subject: Re: code to erase/format a mounted volume...
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Date: 1 Nov 89 22:18:20 GMT
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In article <57892@tiger.oxy.edu> sonenbli@oxy.edu (Andrew D. Sonenblick) writes:
>     Ok, short and sweet: do you have code that will erase a mounted
>   volume?  If you do, please send a copy to me at sonenbli@oxy.edu

I wouldn't mind some code to erase an UNmounted volume!  I have this
disk for which the response is always "The desktop file couldn't be
created on the disk..." followed by ejection.  Nor can the desktop
file be rebuilt.  I don't get any chance to try to reinitialize it.

John Doner		doner@henri.ucsb.edu