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From: hundt@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Hundt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Exchanging 3.5" floppies with non-PS2 machines (trouble!)
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Date: 2 Apr 91 23:44:58 GMT
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Here I thought it was just my own fault.  My Model 80 at work
wouldn't exchange floppies (reliably) with my clone at home... 
Problems came with 720K disks especially.  If I formatted a disk
on one machine, there would be problems reading on the other.  On
other machines at work (all PS2's, mostly 80s) I could work with
the diskettes formatted/written on the 80 in my office, no
problem.  So, I concluded that my clone's 1.44 drive was causing
the problem.  Sigh.

Today, a colleague mentioned that he and others had had major
difficulties in this area!  Exchanging the 3.5" disks between
PS/2s and other machines doesn't always work!  

So: the question is, "What's the deal?"

Is there a fix for this?  Are there any set circumstances under
which it happens?  (Or is this just in our office, which had a
bad experience with VGA monitors... IBM came and replaced the
whole bunch...)

-Tom Hundt