On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:31 AM Christian Wacker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for those tips. It does accept a floppy and attempts to read it, but > all attempts to do anything to the disc fail. I haven't had a chance to > floppy-ectomy the unit yet to inspect it up close but we'll see what my lunch > break at work looks like today. I've verified the Disc is OK in the only > Windows box I have with a floppy and it seems to successfully read and write > those discs (Although even the Windows box struggled with the only floppy I > could initially find. Maybe I should try a new in box disc) >
Does formatting the disk fail? If you don't have the correct System software version and/or the extension, the Mac won't be able to read PC-formatted disks. Also, Macs in general were pickier about floppy disks; a disk that works just fine on PC won't necessarily work on a Mac, or it could fail soon thereafter on the PC after the Mac says it's bad. -- [Greg Bennett] -Independent Carpenter, Electrician & Lighting Designer -Purveyor of Classic Apple & Macintosh Gear http://www.hsiprodsvcs.com/ http://www.macshack.us/ -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
