Re: Modern Macs DO have p

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

In article <bjblackbear-ya023680000410971512440001@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net> wrote:

[snip]

>> Randy you are correct The latest operating system MACOS 8 will no longer
>> allow me to transport 800k disks formatted HFS back and forth between my
>> Apple IIGS and my power MAC 6400.  MACOS 7.6 did but no longer.  For me it
>> seems that it it is not the MAC but the operating system which no longer
>> supports the 800K floppy.
>> 
>
>This is a most curious problem I've been reading about.  I have Mac OS 8 on
>two PowerMacs (Performa 6300 and a 9500 at work) and I have no problem
>either formatting 800K floppies to ProDOS OR putting proDOS files on
>them....and my GS will read them, too.

Hopefully people are starting to realize that it's a software conflict or
perhaps a configuration problem causing 800Ks not to work. That was the point
of digging up the info from the TIL. It doesn't matter that the article only
mentioned AV boxes, since it lists some things to try in order to get the
system to use such disks. It's pure bullpuckey to just say the capability
has been taken out of the hardware.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com