yes, I meant native support in the OS, without any other tools/extensions/programs...
just MacOs on the PC and I was able to read FAT-formatted floppies


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Nope, if you have PC exchange, you can run it on 7.5 (and I guess in 7.1 with the extension)..

Regards

On 4/27/05, ANdrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
afaik the DOS format is only supported from 8 upwards in the OS... I might
be mistaking, but that's what I remember... you can check it out somewhere,
read that on some site... if it has support for fat, I guess it should work
no matter if it's ZIP or Floppy...


I'm much a beginner in Macs, though, and might be wrong :)

ANdrei
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> In a message dated 4/26/05 "Jennifer Worgan"
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> << Iomega Zip drive? Mac can read PC formated Zip disks - done it many
> times
> both ways for many reasons - would it work in this case? >>
>
> Good question. The original poster is using OS 7. Does OMEGA have a
> driver
> for PC formatted Zips that will mount them in OS 7?
>
> Recently I had to convert some old PC formatted SyQuest carts to CD.
> Usually
> the SE/30 with OS 7.5.5 does the job with Mac formatted carts but with > PC
> carts it gives a message unrecognized "DOS formatted" and would not > mount
> them.
> All third party OS 7 compatible drivers like Mt Everything, FWB, > SCSIProbe
> and
> others did not help.
>
> With OS 8 on a 6100 there was no problem mounting PC formatted
> carts. --glen
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