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From: lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Format floppy disks
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.201652.25264@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 20:16:52 GMT
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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?
>

Start reformatting the disk to the format that it is already in, and when it
is about half done, hit the interrupt switch and crash your machine (:^()!
The disk will then be "damaged" according to the mac, and you can put it in
any format that you want.  For instance, for a mac disk do "erase disk", and
after about 10 secs of formatting, crash & reboot.  AFE will then reformat for
a PC.  NOTE: There must be a better way of doing this!!!  This procedure is not
good for your system file; use at your own risk.

Lawrence Miller