Macs and 800K disks

[Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@hypermall.com>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> Actually later Macs sometimes have trouble with old disks. For instance, a
> buddy of mine got an early Centris 660AV that came with an autoinject floppy.
> It never did like disks he used with his IIgs and IIci. Eventually it quit
> reading 800K disks entirely. That box has since found a new owner and he has
> a powermac with the ever popular manual inject. He hasn't mentioned to me
> whether his old disks have any problems in it or not.

Indeed, my Performa 6115CD sometimes just totally forgets how to deal
with 800K floppies. Can't read them, can't write them, etc. I suspect a
bug in the driver. Tony Diaz mentioned that you can hook an actual 800K
floppy drive up to a newer Mac and it works fine, and more reliably with
800K floppies. I've never done that, but Tony's usually right :)

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