Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!marc From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Trouble with high-density floppies? Message-ID: <46168@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 31 Oct 90 14:53:44 GMT References: <1990Oct9.181925.327@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 28 In article kkirksey@eng.auburn.edu (Kenneth B. Kirksey) writes: >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? Yes. When I worked for Kennect, writing their Rapport software, we had a big magnet that we used to "destroy" a disk--the Macs wouldn't format a MSDOS disk (720K). Mark -- --------------------------------- Mark Dawson Service Diagnostic Engineering AppleLink: Dawson.M Apple says what it says; I say what I say. We're different ---------------------------------