Re: suggestions for utility disk in Disk Copy image format

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
: In article <55gvcd$ik2@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

: >   Given the number of people that've had their recent-model Macs ****
: >up 800K disk archives, I'd recommend putting a bit in any associated
: >Readme file noting that certain Macs do have that problem, and that
: >short of demanding to their dealer that Apple stop using substandard
: >1.44MB drives, they've been shafted by Apple. Unreliable support for
: >something is far more aggravating than no support.

: I've only heard of AV Macs with trouble myself. Not monkeyed with any of the
: Powermacs enough to tell. I know that all mine, from Plus to Q700 to SE/30
: to PB165, work happily with 800Ks. The one AV I saw had a Sony autoinject
: so the type of floppy seems to be not the cause of that particular box's 
: problems at least.

AFAIK, I have had absolutely NO problems with my PMac 7600 and 800k disks,
either Mac or IIgs formats. My IIgs can also read Apple II disks formatted
on the Macintosh without problems as well.

: But should it be bootable?
: -- 
: Randy Shackelford                                 
: shack@frii.com