Re: Apple][gs and Quadra 660AV HFS conflict

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <94047.223643KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>,
Ken Richardson  <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> wrote:
>I was wondering if someone else out there has run into the same problem.
>Here goes:
>At work we have a Quadra 660AV.  The Quadra refuses to read disks that
>are written to by my GS under the HFS FST.  At first, I thought there
>might be a problem with the GS's formatting under HFS so I used a Mac
>IIsi to copy the files off the 800k floppy onto the IIsi's hard drive.
>Next, I reformatted the floppy using the IIsi, and recopied the files
>back onto the floppy disk.  The Quadra 660AV had no problem reading the
>files from then on.

I know someone with a 660av and IIgs and has this exact problem. There has
been plenty o' talk over in comp.sys.mac about it. If the machines are in
the same vicinity using localtalk to transfer files is an easy workaround.
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