Re: [WinMac] Problems with PC Floppy Disks
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:33:16 -0700 (PDT)
It's not documented, but i've always found that the Mac is a little
"pickier" about floppy disks in general. Disks that formatted
perfectly fine on a PC were rejected when i tried to reformat
them as Macintosh disks.
sectors on a DOS-formatted floppy as well.
--Darryl
> 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?
* Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
* FAQ: <http://www.darryl.com/winmacfaq/> *
* Archives: <http://www.darryl.com/winmac/> *
* Subscribe: <mailto:winmac-on@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
* Subscribe Digest: <mailto:winmac-digest@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
* Unsubscribe: <mailto:winmac-off@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2
on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 18:37:05 PDT
|