Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!johnc From: johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Postscript and Floppies Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 21:19:01 GMT References: <13759@ur-cc.UUCP> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 18 esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eran Shtiegman) writes: >Well for all of you who are interested I tried everything to make the >next read ibm floppies. I rebooted, formatted on a mac, formatted on >an Ibm but nothing works. It just will not recognize anything. I >guess I just erased a file or something. Beats me. If your floppy is a 720K (no extra hole), and you're formatting it as a 1.44 floppy on an IBM, then the NeXT won't recognize it. Most IBM- compatible drives don't sense the floppy type by looking for the hole. NeXT's drive does. -- -- John Coppinger "You'll find that your left cuff link -- -- University of Kentucky will be communicating with your right -- -- johnc@s.ms.uky.edu cuff link via satellite" -- -- johnc@graphlab.cc.uky.edu [NeXT] -- Nicholas Negroponte --