Re: HFS Incompatibility

[ljsilicon@aol.com (LJSILICON)]

>Also, I formatted another disk into a Mac format on my GS but it showed up
>on a PowerPC as a disk with no storage space available.  So, I reformatted
>the disk again into a Mac format on a PowerPC this time, and it worked
>fine on both machines.

I hate to reopen the can of worms, but, the PowerPC's have some funky 3.5"
 drives. If you format an 800k disk on your Apple and you get an error when
 trying to write to the that disk from the Power PC, you may have one of the
 bad drives. If your Power PC is under warranty, you may want to have it
 checked out. Contrary to what some people would have you believe, many of the
 Power PC's with problems have SONY mechanisms. As for the MSDOS format; if you
 formatted a 1.44 meg disk on your PC, an 800k Apple drive cannot read it as it
 doesn't have the capability to do so.
 
>When I formatted a disk as MS-DOS on my GS using MS-DOS utilities

Here, you have me stumped. What MSDOS utilities?