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From: cash@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Howard Cash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: problems with FDHD formatting
Message-ID: <1990May26.234721.28886@csmil.umich.edu>
Date: 26 May 90 23:47:21 GMT
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In article <1990May21.010606.1962@radar.uucp> donn@radar.uucp (D Fishbein) writes:
>I can't format disks with my FDHD. Any attempt to format
>a 1.44M or 800K floppy ends with the message "Initialization
>failed" after the system starts verificiation of the format.
>...
>Has anyone had a similar problem or know a fix?
>-- 

I have a IIci and have had similar problems with my FDHD.  The 
interesting part of this problem is that many 800K floppies that
the FDHD is not able to format ("Initialization failed" message)
format easily on my MacII with its standard (800k) drive.  After
disks have been initialized on the MacII, the MacIIci is able to 
use them without complaint.

This problem has been reproduced at least six times on my local
hardware.  Any suggestions from the net?

-Hobart