> I use a PowerBook 1400cs a lot. But if I take a floppy I use on it > and put it in my wife's iMac USB floppy, I often get the floppy needs > initialization message. But I can read floppies fine on the PB which > my wife makes on her iMac. Why would that be?
Funny, I have another 1400 floppy disk weirdness story. A disk formatted in a Windows PC is readable on my 1400. If, after putting it in and letting it churn and create its resource fork repository, I put it back in the Windows PC, the PC will no longer read it. (The 1400 still reads it fine.) For that matter, this happens with my DOS 486 laptop as well, so I don't think it's Windows at fault (for once). If I write protect the disk so that the Mac can save no changes, it survives. Very odd. Incidentally, my dual G4's USB floppy will read the disk both before and after the apparent munging by the 1400. -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -- Juan Ramon Jimenez --- -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
