Re: Modern Macs DO have p

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

In article <9710040546.0849S00@techall.wa.com>, norman.dodge@techall.wa.com
wrote:

> Hello Randy!
> 
> 
> >   If you're having problems getting any recent (Powermac and other
> >stuff after these AV things) Mac to reliably read/write 800K 3.5"
> >drives, please post here just so that we can get some stats and
> >evidence of this problem. Some folks would rather whitewash it away
> >and pretend it doesn't exist, but maybe with the light of facts in the
> >way, they might get a clue.
> 
>  N> Post your findings after you try the cures listed in the note. Which,
>   > by the way, is the only info you find in the TIL searching merely for
>   > the word "floppy" and looking for articles dealing with 800K disks.
>   > Looks like no one is complaining about problems with newer boxes.
>   > --
>   > Randy Shackelford
>   > shack@frii.com
> 
> 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.
> 
> I do not know if there is a workaround for this at this time.  I don't
> know where to find info about this problem.  Perhaps you could e-mail me
> with solutions.  The only solution I have found is to return to MACOS
> 7.6.1 or older or get two ZIP drives one for the MAC and one for the GS to
> allow me to transport wares back and forth.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Norman.dodge@techall.wa.com
> 

[delurking again....]

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.

[lurking mode on]

--bj
Proud user/owner of Apple Computers since 1984
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