Re: Apple][gs and Quadra 660AV HFS conflict

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <NTXgJc6w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>,
Herbert Fung <herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>Previously Ken Richardson  <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>I was wondering if someone else out there has run into the same problem.
>>Here goes:
>>At work we have a Quadra 660AV.  The Quadra refuses to read disks that
>>are written to by my GS under the HFS FST.  At first, I thought there

>I'm not sure if this is similar to your problem, but I have noticed that
>on occasion, HFS disks formatted on my GS will not be read properly. The
>Macs occasionally will indicate that the disk is damaged. It seems that
>Macs are a little more sensitive to the bulk floppies I use.

This is a pretty well-documented problem with AV's. Their drives are a tad
picky about floppies, particularly 800K disks. Just network the machines and
file-share the files back and forth.
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