One of the things not generally mentioned is the need to occasionally clean the Floppy. There is some info about this, in Tech Tool lite 3.0.3 and earlier version
I have not used it myself but have had a floppy that needed that sort of attention Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 09:11 PM, chesnutt wrote: > > > I'm running OS 9.1 on a PM 7300. A friend just gave me a floppy which > > I > > believe was formatted (on a Mac Powerbook) as a DOS disk. My machine > > tells me that it is unreadable. Does anybody have any idea what gives? > > I thought File Exchange would enable this disk to open up > > automatically? > > > > > > Ah, the magic of floppies. These day's you're very lucky if they work > at all. I have actually had the experience of saving a file to a floppy > on one PC, taking the disk to an identical machine in the office next > door, and had the disk fail to read. > > Try email. > > -- > Peter Hinchliffe > Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, :::::::::::::::::::::::: > Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
