Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!nic.smsu.edu!not-for-mail From: slb553s@nic.smsu.edu (Barber Scott L) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: AE Vulcan Drive Date: 21 Mar 1994 10:00:25 -0600 Organization: Southwest Missouri State University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <2mkgapINN14ub@nic.smsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.smsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] Found out some new info from AE...just for all you Vulcan folks who might not know it. THere IS a low level formatter in the Partition manager software... Here goes...when you launch Part.Manager from prodos, you get 4 cchoices at the top of the screen..: modify, format, interleave,a nd quit. Move the highlight to format, and type 'AE' (without quotes). You'll get a message saying something about not finding a boot partition, and it asks you if you want to find it. say yes to all the prompts, and it locks out bad blocks on the drive. Again, you all might know this already, but i paid the 1.50 a minute over three months to get it (bout $70 bucks in calls before they forked over the secret)... Merry christmas everybody... SERKER