on 7/24/03 11:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Oh, mac dorks, help me > > I am a newby in a fight w a small Mac Classic.? It's been stripped of its hard > drive and I'm running the cache based OS (with that funny Command+Apple+O+X).? > So I don't expect much.? But many of the disks I'm making can't be read.? To > be safe, I'm formatting them at 800kb on a mac w OS 9.? Additionally, I tried > to make a 6.0.8 boot disk but it only worked once.? After which I got the sad > mac face.? > > Is my disk-drive wack?? Shouldn't it have a superdrive??? Why wouldn't it read > a bootdisk?? Thanks in advance to my low end peeps
When you only get one boot from a disk it's probably the drive chewing grooves in the floppy. Open the shutter and look at the media in the light. Take out and clean the drive. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
