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[blusnowkitty]

Any clues on why low-level formatting a 5MB Profile with BLU is failing during the Spare Sector format? I keep seeing Status 00000001 or 00000003 midway through the Spare Sector format.

[blusnowkitty]

So, found an old post on LisaList1 where Jason ran into the same problem. I'm seeing the same thing as well, ? as device name and completely nonsensical sizes in BLU. But the fun thing is... Office System can still format and install to the drive without issue regardless?

https://lisalist2.com/lisalist1/2682.html

[compu_85]

I was just going to reply that I ran into this same problem formatting ProFiles in BLU 

[AlexTheCat123]

I've had the same issue too.

[patrick]

Any clues on why low-level formatting a 5MB Profile with BLU is failing during the Spare Sector format? I keep seeing Status 00000001 or 00000003 midway through the Spare Sector format.

This is no fault. It just means that 1 resp. 3 spare blocks are in use. As long as this number is below 0x1F your drive will be useable.

[compu_85]

Ya, sounds like a bug in BLU then, because if it's not a 0, the process bombs out.

-J

[blusnowkitty]

And indeed, most of the time during the spare sector format when it errored out the stepper motor would be halfway or 3/4 across the surface of the disk.

[sigma7]

Thanks for the clarification, I'll add this to the bug list.

Any clues on why low-level formatting a 5MB Profile with BLU is failing during the Spare Sector format? I keep seeing Status 00000001 or 00000003 midway through the Spare Sector format.

This is no fault. It just means that 1 resp. 3 spare blocks are in use. As long as this number is below 0x1F your drive will be useable.