Re: Floptical update

[gregt@porsche.visix.com (Greg Thompson)]

>"thes" == Seth D Kadesh <thes+@CMU.EDU> writes:

  thes> Inserting incorrectly formatted disks causes the drive to
  thes> hang.  I have a lot of high density disks that I formatted at
  thes> 800k.  Now, I know that the floptical drive can't read 800k
  thes> disks, but shouldn't it realize that the disk is formatted
  thes> improperly, and return an error to the finder?

  Try covering the HD hole with some scotch tape (or human flesh, both
work equally well), and see if making the drive think it's a low
density disk makes any difference...

  I'd do it, but I don't have a floptical drive.  Makes it kinda
hard...

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