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

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <94047.223643KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>, Ken Richardson <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|> 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.
|> 
|> However, I took the same disk to my GS, worked on some of the files, and
|> the Quadra 660AV then  found the disk to be unreadable.    A Mac IIsi
|> and Centris 610 could read the disk without any difficulty.  Sigh!
|> 
|> All three models of Macintosh are running system 7.  I disabled all the
|> desk accessories on the Quadra 660AV and it still could not read the
|> disk the GS wrote on.  Therefore, there is a bug somewhere, on the GS
|> side or the Quadra's side.  I vote for the Quadra since the GS disk works
|> on all the other Mac models I've ever used.