Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!vw.acs.umn.edu!dhoyt From: dhoyt@vw.acs.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Format floppy disks Message-ID: <2145@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 28 Aug 90 15:15:25 GMT Sender: news@ux.acs.umn.edu Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services Lines: 11 In article <44308@apple.Apple.COM>, marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes... >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? Am I missing something? I swap disks all the time and have never had a problem. david paul hoyt | dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu | dhoyt@umnacvx.bitnet