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UTILITY
THE PREP
T he su rface o f t h e W i n e e
i tialized before i t ca n
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s imilar t o t h e F
t hat typi cal o p erating system i n o r m a '
labels, boot code, and d i r ect
i nchester d i s k m u s t b e i n -
, This i s n be used i n a s y s t em , i s '
rocedure . FORMA T c o m m a n d a n d p r o c e u
ual ex cept d in the Z-100 Series User's Manual , p
ctories) for a speci i c
n onto the d i sk . In a d d i t i on , P
w ill test the surface and set up sta n a r p a r i '
a jumper o n t h e
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before you can «
k n t r o l l e r c i r c u i t
board in the Desktop
t be a c c i d en -
i nstalled, th e W i n e
m per ( n o t i n -
t ally i n i t i a l i z e d .
f f iles t h at may
the pREP util i ty , you
the Wi n c h ester i s con
ust install
to c o m p uter.
'umper is not
i nchester d i s k c a n n o
T herefore, t e l u m P
a fet f e a t ur e o r a n
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a pproxim ately e q ua l i n s i z e -
r un the PART u t i l i t y u n l e s s
Features of PREP
some other partiti o n ing arrangeme
Y ou need to be aware t a t w i e
s urface of the d is k o r r e
stro a n d a t a t h a t m a y b e r ecord e o n e i
chester disk sy stem. If y o u o n o
t he data on th e d i sk , bu t s '
I FY uti l i ty . T h i s ut i i y
data and par i i
d isk, but i t d o e s test for a n
ag
are bad so that they can be "locked out" l ater.
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tion ca abilities, you
may runt e
artitions that are set up on t e i n c
d t h
i lit d o e s no t e s r o y
are that wh i l e PREP does test the
ill also
for retention of d a ta, it w i a
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for Z-DOS and one for CP/M).
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T est the data retention capa '
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chester disk.
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Figure 6-1
The Winchester disk controller board