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From: barry@playfair.stanford.edu (Barrett P. Eynon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Using FastFormatter 3.0
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Date: 14 Aug 90 18:41:57 GMT
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In article <1990Aug14.120411.25857@watserv1.waterloo.edu> psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes:
>I tried using Fast Formatter 3.0 yesterday and found that it would
>have problems with nearly every disk that I formated. It was 
>successful with 1 out of 6. I tried these with Fast Formatter 2.22
>and they formatted no problems. I have quite a few inits/cdevs that   
>could interfer with formating (Dos mounter, Daynafile, MacJanet etc).
>I have never had this problem with the apple formater or with 2.22.

I seem to remember running into this problem as well - when I switched
to Finder only, it worked fine, as I recall. Hopefully the author
will fix this, as otherwise Fast Formatter is the best floppy formatter
I've seen.



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Barry Eynon
barry@playfair.stanford.edu