Re: Macintosh freezes when copying files to ProDOS diskette

[Luis de Santos <desantos@cfl.rr.nospam.com>]

Please explain the difference between the auto-inject floppies and the
newer ones.  How would I know which is which?


On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 07:35:01 GMT, Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>
wrote:

>Luis de Santos wrote:
>> Has anyone experienced any problems copying files from a Mac to a 1.4
>> meg ProDOS diskette?  My G3 with system 9.2.2 freezes outright the
>> second copying begins.  It could be the high density disk, I haven't
>> tried with an 800k disk because I don't have any.
>
>I've the same problem with OS 9 on a Beige G3, 7600 or 8600. I remember
>that the 7600 wrote to ProDOS floppies when it had OS 7.6 but stopped
>writing them with either OS 8 or 8.5.
>
>I have a hybrid computer running OS9 that has no trouble writing to
>ProDOS floppies. It's a Color Classic that I modified by replacing
>the motherboard with one from a Performa 6320. It still has the
>original auto-inject floppy drive.
>
>I may be wrong but it sort of looks like a combination of hardware
>and software creates the problem.
>
>Wayne