May be a very stupid, unnessecary and even offending question: Have you closed the r/w protection of the disks? Or did you try (unreadable) 1.44MB DOS disks on the two drives ? Close the other hole with adhesive tape - if it then askes for formatting, think of intensive cleaning, although they read. Lars
>Had another thrift store rescue. A dual floppy (800k) SE. Took it home, >fired it up with an old disk. It booted right up, vertical need a little >adjusting so I opened it up and there is a hard drive. Fixed the vertical. >Turned it on and it booted up from the HD. It has some startup icons I¹m >not familiar with so I dig around and it turns out someone put a GemStart >16MHz Mercury from Total Systems in there. That explains the slow startup, >but perky response to apps. > >Now the weirdness. Both of the floppy drives read and right ok. I can run >apps from the floppy drives. However, it doesn¹t seem to want to format >400k or 800k disks. I can format a disk in another 68k machine and it works >fine, just won¹t format. > >Any thoughts? > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
