[WinMac] Problems with PC Floppy Disks
Graeme Costin(gcostin[at]ozemail.com.au)
Since moving to System 8 I have had occasional problems with copying files to and from PC formatted floppy disks. At first I thought it was some sort of virus problem (since the source of the PC files was an office where viruses are occasionally seen), then I though it was related to double density (720KB) rather than high density (1.44MB). But I think I finally found a good correlation between PC formatted disks that have bad sectors and the occurrence of the problem. Any floppy disk - 720KB or 1.44MB - that has zero bad sectors works fine with System 8's PC Exchange; but when I use a PC formatted disk that has bad sectors crazy problems usually occur. For example, a file is written apparently correctly (correct numbers of bytes) to the floppy by the Mac, but my Wintel machine reports a disk failure part way through the file.
Has anyone else found this? Is it a documented problem?
Graeme
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