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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProFILE repairs
Message-ID: <12810@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 May 90 19:08:05 GMT
References: <24073.2646bb2f@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <24073.2646bb2f@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>I recently bought a 10MB ProFILE cheaply which had suffered some sort of disk
>crash.  When turned on it starts the self-test read/write routine, but after
>about five cycles it stops, the ready light goes out and stays out.

Yup, the ProFILE controller performs a disk check (typically takes about
90 seconds) when the disk is spun up.  It may also remap bad blocks (I'm
not sure about that).

>A friend who works for a dealer says that he remembers that formatting had to
>be done using a special dealers only program that ran on an Apple III.

I heard that too, but when I had the drive replaced in my 5MB ProFILE,
I seem to recall that we got it low-level formatted via ProDOS-8.