phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (05/08/90)
I recently bought a 10MB ProFILE cheaply which had suffered some sort of disk crash. When turned on it starts the self-test read/write routine, but after about five cycles it stops, the ready light goes out and stays out. My thoughts in buying this were that I could attempt to fix the disk, which might involve replacing the hard disk unit (Seagate), or remove the ProFILE innards and use the power supply to run a SCSI drive in the enclosure. However I remember talk about problems with formatting a ProFILE. A friend who works for a dealer says that he remembers that formatting had to be done using a special dealers only program that ran on an Apple III. If this is the case is there any way around it? Otherwise I guess that I need to get a copy of the program and find someone with an Apple III. Any words of advice are welcome - I would like to get a working hard disk, but can't afford other methods at present. -- Stephen Harker Monash University
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (05/09/90)
In article <24073.2646bb2f@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes: >I recently bought a 10MB ProFILE cheaply which had suffered some sort of disk >crash. When turned on it starts the self-test read/write routine, but after >about five cycles it stops, the ready light goes out and stays out. Yup, the ProFILE controller performs a disk check (typically takes about 90 seconds) when the disk is spun up. It may also remap bad blocks (I'm not sure about that). >A friend who works for a dealer says that he remembers that formatting had to >be done using a special dealers only program that ran on an Apple III. I heard that too, but when I had the drive replaced in my 5MB ProFILE, I seem to recall that we got it low-level formatted via ProDOS-8.
mikeu@pro-magic.cts.com (Mike Ungerman) (05/10/90)
In-Reply-To: message from phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au I, too, used a cheap Profile for a number of years until the hard drive failed. The power supply and case make a nice base now for my 40mb miniscribe interfaced to my Apple ][e with the Megaboard card by Perlin. I believe I saw some Profile drives listed for sale on the misc.for.sale feed some time ago. You might also try Sun Remarketing and Shrieve Systems, both listed in Computer Shopper for bare drives. ______________________________________________________________________________ Mike Ungerman |Proline:mikeu@pro-magic Pro-Magic BBS: 407-366-0156 |uucp:crash!pnet01!pro-magic!mikeu 300/1200/2400/9600 Baud 24hrs |arpa:crash!pnet01!pro-magic!mikeu@nosc.mil Apple Tree of Central Florida, Inc |Internet:mikeu@pro-magic.cts.com Orlando, Florida|Voice:407-366-0060|Compuserve:71326,31 Prodigy: JSNP58A