On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:06 pm, dep wrote: > begin Tony Alfrey's quote: <snip> > | My wife has a conventional 3 1/2" floppy that she formatted eons > | ago on an old Compaq computer. She says > | a) the old Compaq would read floppies formatted on an IBM PC. > | b) floppies formatted on her Compaq could not be read on other PCs. > | <snip> > > is it a 720k floppy? eons ago, those were the 3.5 floppies.
After further quizzing, the floppy seems to be about 8 years old, but . . . it says "Sony High Density MFD-2HD". I have some old 720k macintosh disks that say MFD-2DD ( "double density" ). It certainly acts like 720k (which my box also cannot open or transfer). Maybe it was formatted at 720 k. Any magic tricks in this case? -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd Rather Be Sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
