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Re: Does it exist? Mac USB Floppy drive r/w 800k & ProDOS disks?



I do not think it is the disk drive that is the problem, most floppy drives
will read 800K disks.  Most likley due to their age, the disk was corrupt.

"Bart" <you@somehost.somedomain> wrote in message
news:a2thor$ebb$1@opus.pdx.net...
> I have posted this three times!  lets see if this time it works:
> When I 1st read this thread I picked up a Apple II disk laying about (it
was a
> IIC+ tour disk) and slammed it into the Imation. I saw the icon with the
II on
> it on the desktop so I shot off my reply. I had not "used" it really, I
tried
> it and it worked.  well so I thought.  So, after reading that it didn't
work I
> figured; maybe its broken good?  So this time I slammed in a ProDOS disk
and
> OPENED it.  Imation made a tel-tale grinding noise and up popps a I/O
error
> and a opertunity to erase or format this obviously awful disk.  Oh well.
> -Bart
>