Hi Joyce, It sounds like your system is recognizing your VST floppy drive just fine. So the issue as you stated is it not recognizing floppy disks which are readable on your desktop system.
My suspicion is a marginal floppy disk. To test this theory, use another floppy disk that is blank or whose contents have no value. Insert this disk into the VST drive. Whether it is readable or not, initialize the disk. Now insert this same disk into your desktop Mac. If it?s readable, it pretty much confirms that both floppy drives are functioning properly and your floppy disk is good. If it?s not readable and prompts you to initialize, go ahead and reinitialize the floppy disk again, then reinsert back into the VST drive to see if it can be read. The logic is this: If a floppy drive can format a disk correctly and write data to it, then the drive and the disk are probably good. If you have multiple floppy drives within multiple cpus that appear to function correctly and yet you are not able to take a freshly formatted floppy from one disk drive to another, the chances are good that you have a marginal floppy disk or a disk drive whose read/write heads are out of alignment. Give it a try and let us know what you find out. Ward Oldham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020107/e997774d/attachment.html
