Re: Mac Vintages and the ability to make ProDOS Disks...

["Bill Martens" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

I used my 840AV and burned about 500 3.5 floppies on it over about 2 years
for both the IIgs and the IIc+.  Worked great for me.  But I know that there
are still better machines for that.

(I also used Mac System 8.1)

--billm--
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<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message
1137960361.684804.262610@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com">news:1137960361.684804.262610@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> My Quadra 840AV has difficulties when using ProDOS-formatted disks:
> Its rather slow and sometimes it doesn't recognize the disk (and offers
> to format it) - regardless whether it was formatted on the GS or the
> Mac.
>
> On the other hand the GS reads HFS(?) formatted disks from the 840AV
> without problems.
>
> bye
> Marcus
>