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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SDSI 8 MB & ST506 disk drives
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Date: 17 Feb 88 04:00:18 GMT
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Supra recommends removing all cards, especially RAM cards when formating their
drives - so this problem doesn't seem to be unique.  Their answer to my
puzzling question - WHY? is/was that all the RAM chips may not be going to a
zero state and blah blah blah... something about this being necessary for the
format process to work correctly.  It was really all over my head but I'm not
sure I buy it anyway.  They also strongely recommended that you turn the
machine OFF for 10 minutes before the format process and 10 minutes after the
format process for this same interesting zero state business.  Well, what can
I say.  I tried it and I thought things were better but it didn't last.  For
nothing better to blame all my Guru's on I blame TAG and have given up the
board (after a "delete dh1:TAG all").
 
Bill

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