Re: Still need help: Apple II <-> Macintosh

[btomlin@aol.com (Bruce Tomlin)]

In article <6dnjla$otr$1@opal.southwind.net>, shack@onyx.southwind.net 
(Randy Shackelford) wrote:

> There is no such info concerning Powermacs, and I suspect that the lion's
> share of people who have trouble are using high mileage, poorly maintained
> drives on their IIgses. I bet they'd have better luck if they formatted the
> disks on the Mac drives, so as to make sure that they're readable in them.

I formatted some IIgs system disks in a three month old PowerTower Pro 
using Disk Copy, and they didn't work.  I went over to the ancient IIci 
(the floppy drive was replaced about four years ago after the original 
died), made some disks, and they work fine.  Of course Disk Copy is picky 
as hell, so maybe that's my real problem.  I often can't successfully 
create a disk with it if the disk isn't fresh out of the box and 
unformatted.  So maybe there's something strange about how it formats 
tracks with the data already on them that doesn't quite work right on a 
Power Mac.