Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!coherent!dplatt
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I just thrashed my Hard Disk!
Summary: Apple has added goof-proofing to the disk-initialization sequence
Message-ID: <5676@coherent.com>
Date: 15 Jun 88 03:19:38 GMT
References: <3599@okstate.UUCP>
Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA
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In article <3599@okstate.UUCP> ericc@a.cs.okstate.edu (Eric Cloninger) writes:
> Ok, now I'm _R_E_A_L_L_Y_ pissed!
> 
>> 2) The system didn't realize it was initializing a hard disk.

Well, Apple has done something entirely praiseworthy in the System 6.0
release.  If the disk-initialization package tells you that a disk is
unreadable, and you click one of the buttons that will initialize the
disk, a warning box pops up and informs you quite clearly that "This
process will erase all information on this disk!"  You must click the
"Erase" button to permit the initialization to continue.

So, if you didn't realize that "initialize" means "erase the world!",
System 6.0 gives you a chance to cancel the operation.  Good move,
Apple!
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