Epson Equity I Product Support Bulletin(s) - Page 76
Board And Hdc Cpu Firmware Version It Will Be Used
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NUMBER: S-0001C HARD DISK FORMATTING INFORMATION PAGE: 5 of 5 ******IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMpQRTANT***** * * * ALWAYS FORMAT THE HDD WITH THE SAME VERSION CONTROLLER BOARD AND HDC CPU FIRMWARE VERSION IT WILL BE USED WITH. * IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REFORMAT IF THE ROM BIOS IS * * UPGRADED AS LONG AS THE SAME FIRMWARE CPU IS USED. * * * * * FOR LOW LEVEL FORMATTING: 1. EQUITY I/II FORMAT See PSB # S-0005 titled Equity I/II HDD intialization procedure using software which is included with each system. 2. EQUITY III FORMAT a. Run PFORMAT - Enter bad tracks - Time approx. 5 minutes. b. Run HDFMTALL - Time approx. 8 minutes. C . Run HDPART - Time approx. 2 minutes. d. Run HDFORMAT - Time approx. 5 minutes. 3. EQUITY III+ - See Product Support Bulletin # S-0006 Notes: 1. Early production Equity I units without HDDS must be upgraded with the CAC version VF0 SUB-board to operate with a hard drive. 2. Equity I, DOS ver. 2.11 problem - Bad sector information erased when HDFORMAT (MS-DOS utility) executes formatting. Corrected in DOS version 2.2 (MSA-B3) and 2.21 (MSA-B4). 3. Equity I/II - HDFMTALL erases bad sector information. Delete HDFMTALL from the system disk.