Epson Equity III Product Support Bulletin page 96

E P S O N
EPSON AMERICA INC.
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
PRODUCT
3/13/87
DATE:
SUBJECT: EQUITY III+ / MINISCRIBE HDD INITIALIZATION WITH SPEEDSTOR
In order to utilize the full capacity of the Miniscribe 6053 that
is offered with the Equity III+, Epson is including a copy of
SpeedStor version 4.02. A product of Storage Dimensions, Inc.,
SpeedStor handles not only initialization of the hard drive, but
also allows the creation of multiple partitions using the same
operating system (i.e., virtual drives). The following covers two
methods used for initialization.
METHOD 1:
The two programs from the SpeedStor diskette that are used are
HARDPREP.EXE (HARD disk PREParation) and PARTED.EXE
(PARTition EDitor). Both are menu-driven and pretty well self-
explanatory. However, here are a few tips to make the procedure
even smoother.
1 - When invoking either HARDPREP or PARTED, be sure and use
the following command line syntax:
HARDPREP /NoCMOS or PARTED /NoCMOS
This causes the hard disk parameter table (HDPT) to be written
to the hard disk instead of CMOS RAM. This allows subsequent
use of the Epson SETUP utility without corrupting the HDPT.
2 - The proper order in HARDPREP is:
o Select Miniscribe 6053 from the TYPE menu.
o (Optionally) change interleave (the default is 3) from the
INITIALIZE menu.
o Select StandardInit from the INITIALIZE menu. A prompt
will ask if you wish to enter media defect locations; if the
error list on top of the drive is empty, respond with NO and
proceed with INITIALIZE. If the list contains entries,
respond with YES. The Bad Track menu will appear; follow the
prompts to enter the listed defects. When all bad tracks are
entered, select QUIT and proceed with INITIALIZE.
o When initialization is complete, respond with YES to record
the displayed bad tracks. After the bad tracks are marked,
choose QUIT to return to the main menu, and QUIT again to
exit to DOS.
will show no bad tracks listed. This is normal and they
have, in fact, been mapped out.)
SUPPORT
(Note that if you bring up HARDPREP again, it
BULLETIN
NUMBER:
S-0006
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