Re: HFS Incompatibility

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.971108010901.21651C-100000@taurus>,
The Mangler  <dayen@sfsu.edu> wrote:

>I wanted to exchange files with a friend that uses a PC.  When I
>formatted a disk as MS-DOS on my GS using MS-DOS utilities, his
>computer didn't recognize it, and when he reformatted the disk to MS-DOS
>on his PC, my computer didn't recognize it.  What is going on?

Well you don't mention the disk size or whether you have a superdrive, so
I'll assume you used the normal 3.5 drive on the IIgs floppy port. You would
end up with an 800K GCR formatted DOS disk which a PC wouldn't like, and the
other way around would give you a 720K MFM formatted DOS disk which the IIgs
wouldn't like.

>Also, I formatted another disk into a Mac format on my GS but it showed up
>on a PowerPC as a disk with no storage space available.  So, I reformatted
>the disk again into a Mac format on a PowerPC this time, and it worked
>fine on both machines.
>
>The question is, why?

Sounds like the format on the IIgs failed. You would expect the reverse to work
wouldn't you? Assuming you're not one of those who think Apple and the cloners
don't care about compatibility any more that is.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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