Hi Lloyd,
when you say your floppies don't work, were they 880K floppies or 1.4mb
floppies(the latter have a"HD" printed in one corner). 880K floppies
aren't supported in OS X.
Alternatively, could it be the drive itself? perhaps a firmware update?
Give me more details and I will try to help. I personally have a cheap
USB floppy drive and i don't have problems with 1.4mb Mac disks with no
problem. Also check that the disks aren't file protected - OSX needs to
put ds_store files on them.
You are correct w/respect to fileid.dat etc - however you need them on
the mac side. However, deleting them will just mean they get replaced
next time you put them in your mac.
they don't affect how the disks work in PCs.
Dave
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 07:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Message: 16
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:49:21 +0800
From: Lloyd White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppies plus more
Hi folks,
Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use
floppies
with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most
floppies
will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains
nothing that
the system can recognise.
The same floppies work well on my old PowerBook using OS 8.6
Do I need to initialise even new floppies?
ANOTHER THING
When these floppies do open they contain three files, FILEID.DAT,
FINDER.DAT and RESOURCE.FRK
Are these normally hidden and if so how can I either hide them or get
rid of
them. I want them to open on other people's PCs and am using PC
formatted
disks.
Lloyd
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