well.... damn didly damn damn damn seems this USB thing just can't respond to something. The thing that irks me is that it is probably something that has nothing to do with writing data because -19 is the code for write error. So it probably is some command that only the apple electric floppy could do like mount the floppy or something like that... because it does it right after it formats the floppy.... before it is able to write any data.
And with no mac to access.... hmmm Maybe at school I can convince a teacher to let me try it there. And I definitely have to return the floppy drive as it IS defective. It does not work. Thats good, So we shall see what happens. Once I get it to boot from the floppy it will probably have a bad hard ;-) So again if anyone has a mac with a Floppy in it in south orange county please let me know. On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:20:11 +0100, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20.03.2005, at 18:20, Jeffrey Bergier wrote: > > > OK..... found the command in the finder.... erased it to Mac OS > > Standard. Found the command in Disk Copy. Selected my file. It said > > please insert a High Density floppy. I put it in, it seems to be > > being to start then it says "The Disk Floppy did not complete (-17)" > > I don't recall running across that error myself before... But according > to the official list of error codes [1] error -17 means "Driver can't > respond to Control call." I'm not sure how exactly to interpret that, > but one possibility is that Disk Copy tries to do things with the > floppy disk that your USB floppy drive doesn't know how to do. In that > case, you'll have to try again on a Mac with a built-in Apple / Sony > floppy drive. Although I wouldn't expect it to produce this error code, > another possibility might be that the floppy disk has bad blocks. I > wouldn't necessarily think this is the case, but since you said before > you don't know anybody with a Mac with a built-in Apple floppy drive, > trying a couple different floppy disks might be easier for you. > > [1] http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=9805 > > > -- > System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> > > System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:system6@mail.maclaunch.com> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:system6@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
