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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.

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NUMBER:
S-0001C
PAGE:
5 of 5
HARD DISK FORMATTING INFORMATION
*****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 HDD
S
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.