Re: msdos 3.5" disks with apple 3.5" drives

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

Previously David Chiu wrote:
 
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>>I believe you are incorrect about the Apple 3.5 drive not being able to
>>read and write to MS-DOS disks. I have used them successfuly with a
>>PCTransporter and my Mac Classic. These are the regular 800K drives.
>
>If I remember correctly, some owners of PC Transporter complained that
>at times 720k disks formatted by PCT cannot be read on generic IBM
>clones.
 
I too have heard of this problem, but I've never run into it. I've had
disks formatted with my Apple 3.5 drive attached to the PCT and then
later an IBM compatible 3.5 drive. I guess this is a problem with only
some PCTs or clones.
 
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