Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!tigger!wilde From: wilde@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Nick Wilde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Dead Floppies ????? Message-ID: <1990Dec27.184433.5743@csn.org> Date: 27 Dec 90 18:44:33 GMT References: <1990Dec27.093000.3845@csc.anu.edu.au> Sender: news@csn.org Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: tigger.colorado.edu I take my old floppies that fail to initialize on my Mac IIcx with superdrive, and stick 'em in a Mac II with the old (non-superdrive) disk drives in it. They initialize fine there, and work in both machines again with no problem.... Don't ask me why, all I know is it works. -Nick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Wilde wilde@boulder.colorado.edu