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From: jdic@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Format floppy disks
Message-ID: <9111@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 20:55:24 GMT
References: <1990Aug27.110119.2908@hellgate.utah.edu>
Reply-To: jdic@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Dick)
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In article <1990Aug27.110119.2908@hellgate.utah.edu> cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu
  (Cheng Yang) writes:
>The floppy disks formatted by a Macintosh cannot be
>reformatted by an IBM PC.  And the floppy disks formatted
>by an IBM PC can't be reformatted by a Mac.  Does anyone
>here have any idea of solving this problem?
>

I've never had any problem reformatting Mac 3.5" disks as IBM, or IBM 3.5"
disks as Mac disks.  I don't know why you're having difficulty.  Assuming
you're using 3.5" drives on both machines.  :-) What are the densities of
the diskettes and the drives you're using?

Matter o' fact, I have occasionally saved a diskette that failed
initialization on the Mac by first reformatting it on a PC, and then
trying the initialization again on the Mac.  (I don't recommend this for
any disk you need to rely on, but it's good for a scratch disk...)

-Jon

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