A quick thought: try eraseing/reformatting a mac floppy. I have an old memory flickering in the back of my brain about two different format processes, one that shows the bar and one that doesn't...maybe. Try it and see.
--- "Gary F. Daught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. I have a peculiar situation with my recently acquired PB180. > Since it didn't come with any floppies I haven't been able to test the > floppy drive. So I thought to format some IBM floppies to Mac-readable. > But I haven't been able to. Repeated attempts to initialize floppies > have failed. Does this indicate a problem with the drive itself? It > appears to be able to read the disk, because when I insert a floppy, > the dialog comes up indicating the disk is not Mac readable, and asks > if I would like to initialize? When I click OK it appears to go through > the process of initializing and verifying, but then the dialog shows > the bar with the amount out of 1440 KB readable. The bar is empty, and > then the dialog changes to "initialization has failed!" Ordinarily I > would have suspected a faulty diskette. But this process failed on four > separate disks. > > Gary __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ -- 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
