Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!eng.auburn.edu!kkirksey From: kkirksey@eng.auburn.edu (Kenneth B. Kirksey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Trouble with high-density floppies? Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 00:01:06 GMT References: <1990Oct9.181925.327@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Auburn University Engineering Lines: 31 In article <1990Oct9.181925.327@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> zkyj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Does anyone know if high density disks are inherently less reliable than >regular double density floppies? I have heard rumors of a higher rate of >failures, and have experienced some. Does the Apple Mac high-density floppy >drive have trouble with HD disks of particular manufacturer? Will appreciate >any responses in laymen's terms. Thanks. I have had a couple of hd floppies fail, but no more than DD. I did discover an interesting fact about hd floppies the hard way (though I don't know if this extends to all machines). I shuttle a lot of files back and forth between our sun sparcstations and my SE/30 on DOS formatted floppies. I ran out of mac hd floppies one night so I decided to reformat the Dos floppy to Mac. Well, I got that old initialization failed message. Ooops. Dead floppy I thought. I tried to reformat another, same deal. And they would not reformat back to dos floppies either. Totally screwed. And it works the same way in the other direction. I tried to dos format a mac formatted hd floppy on the suns. Invalid Media or track 0 bad error. I never tried using a big magnet on 'em to see if I could set them straight. Has anyone else had this problem? +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ / Ken Kirksey / "I have just a sufficient touch of \ / / genius to know that I am not a proper\ / "The Computer Engineer / genius - and I am not much interested in\ / From Hell" / second prize. In the meantime, I expect \ \ \ to have quit a lot of fun and do somewhat / \ Auburn University \ less constructive work than I might if / \ \ I tried as hard as I could." / \ kkirksey@eng.auburn.edu \ -ROBERT A. HEINLEIN / +-----------------------------------------------------------------+