Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a849
From: a849@mindlink.UUCP (Rodger Hort)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FDHD DRIVES
Message-ID: <1481@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 90 12:03:06 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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I'm sure this topic may have been raised before in this forum, but I am new to
the group & would appreciate any help. My FDHD drive in my Mac 11cx sometimes
tells me that my attempts at initialization have failed. Yet I can take the
same disk, swing over to my DOS machine and format it perfectly! I've even
heard of a couple of cases where [people have been using a correctly formatted
disk, only to have the drive tell them it is an unreadable disk and do they
want to format it, etc. - thereby losing all of their data. In other words, the
disk becomes unreadable.
Questions:
          1) What causes this
          2) Any "fixes" out there