Specifications

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HARD DISK FORMATTING INFORMATION
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ALWAYS FORMAT THE HDD WITH THE SAME VERSION CONTROLLER
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BOARD AND HDC CPU FIRMWARE VERSION IT WILL BE USED WITH.
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IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REFORMAT IF THE ROM BIOS IS
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UPGRADED AS LONG AS THE SAME FIRMWARE CPU IS USED.
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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.