Re: PowerPC Mac's Dont like 800k disks!!

[ddoms@qni.com (Dennis Doms)]

dmcclain@runet.edu (Dennis McClain-Furmanski) wrote:

>Programer (progrmer@tiac.net) wrote:
>: 
>: The new PowerPC Mac's have new floppy controllers in them and they 
>: trash/cant read/hate/dispise 800k floppyies!!!!
>: 
>: i've had 2 dozen disks damaged by powermac drives and good disks that 
>: read fine in a 680x0 mac or APple II not read in a PowerMac...
>: 
>: just a warning to everyone!!!

>I'll confirm that.
>It's a damn finicky machine. Don't stick anything in it you can't afford 
>to lose.

I think this may be the newer "compact" floppy drive mechanisms. I
started having similar troubles with a PowerBook 170; it was _very_
persnickety about reading some types (brands?) of DS/DD floppies.
High-density floppies seemed okay.

That PowerBook was a nightmare that made me very reluctant to buy
another Apple product. My IIgs, on the other hand, still works. :)

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