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From: MEPCOM-IM@STL-HOST1.ARPA (Kevin Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Profile Help?
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Date: 10 Feb 88 19:07:31 GMT
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I now have 2 out of my 3 profile 5 meg hard disks that are not working, and
until lately I thought they were dead. (to much to get them fixed) However, 
I had a ray of hope when I got my latest Sun Data catalog. Sun is offering
to do a profile factory format to solve about 90% of the profile problems.
Of couse the bad part is that they want $70 plus shipping to do this.And 
they won't gaurentte that it will won't and if it doesn't you don't get your 
$70 back.

My question is does anyone know how the factory format is done?
I would like to know if it is hardware/software or just software that can be
used with the dead media to fix it. With the relative cheap price of Segate
5-meg media I could get 2 drives and save myself almost $400 off the
price of repairing them.
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