Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!troi.cc.rochester.edu!esht_cif From: esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eran Shtiegman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Postscript and Floppies Message-ID: <13766@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 2 May 91 01:45:10 GMT References: <13759@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 26 In johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) writes: >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. Actually I have tried both types of disks as well. Does anyone know what files the workspace uses to recognize IBM floppies. If someone could send me a list of possible files maybe I can compare them to mine or see if I have them all. Eran -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Eran Shtiegman - - email: esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=