Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!mcnc!ncsuvx!news From: cmpeters@eos.ncsu.edu (C MAVERICK PETERSEN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Trouble with high-density floppies? Message-ID: <1990Oct31.145921.13919@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 31 Oct 90 14:59:21 GMT References: <1990Oct9.181925.327@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: cmpeters@eos.ncsu.edu (C MAVERICK PETERSEN) Distribution: comp Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 61 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. Ahhemmm.... Trouble with HD diskettes? I'll say! I'm beginning to wonder if the SuperDrives are taking me on some SooperDives... I've had half a dozen HD disks go bad on me (just when I needed 'em, of course); and I am beginning to get tired of it. BTW, I've only had one or two DD disks go bad on me in 4 years! (and how long have this StoopidDrives been out?!?) > I never tried using a big magnet on 'em to see if I could set them > straight. Has anyone else had this problem? Well, I've never had enough patience to find a big magnet...most of my uncooperative disks get mutilated/disected as soon as they get ejected ("Initialization failed!") for the third time. > +------------------------ > / Ken Kirksey > / > / "The Computer Engineer > / From Hell" > \ > \ Auburn University > \ > \ kkirksey@eng.auburn.edu > +------------------------- > C. Maverick Petersen Hey, Support Greenpeace. "A Fellow Hellian (BSCPE/BSEE)" North Carolina State University mav@eceugs.ncsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somebody please send me to Colorado... I've gotta get away from Jesse Helms! -------------------------------------------------------------------------