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Re: Low level format utility for the Rainbow 100

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From: "Robert A. Locke"
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 21:54
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Jacob,

     The BEST low-level format utility is called WUtil and was written
by Tony Camas.  I understand that some noce fellow in Europe has taken
version 2.0 written by Tony and updated it to version 3.0 in order to
handle something or other that version 2.0 didn't have.  Does anybody
have a copy of this?  Could they upload, uuencode it, and send it to
me and then I will redistribute to whoever wants it...

    One warning though about going from a 5 megabyte to a 20 megabyte
drive.  Chances are, you are going to need a new to go from the
controller to the drive.  If you have a dark gray one, you need to get
a really light colored one.  The new revision can handle the higher
transfer rate of the data.  You can tell that you are having problems
if you start getting random errors on your drive and random loss of
data.  Lastly, the light colored ones have been known to fail also (I
had one that did).

    You know, it's funny, the only thing to ever go wrong with my
machine was the damn hard drive cable....  Tells you something about
quality.  I've had my machine for five years now....

--Rob Locke
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