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In article <1992Apr14.130518.3823@gw.wmich.edu> 445mathers@gw.wmich.edu writes:
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>On occasion I have a problem with using disks formatted using a SE on
>a plus and vice-versa.  Is there any way of formatting a disk so that
>it will work for sure on both machines?
>
>All of the disks that are pre-bought or demo seem to work fine on both.
>Do I just need a copy of the system and finder to be equivalent?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Mark

First, make sure you're not using a high desity disk.  Some of the newer SE's
come equiped with a Superdrive.  Check the capacity of a disk you formatted
of the SE, a high density will have approx 1.4M and it has two holes in it.
One hole is the normal write protect and the other indicates that it's a high
density (same position as the write protect but on the opposite side).

Also check that the Plus has a system version that supports the Hierarchial
Filing System (I don't remember the first version to implement this).  Make
sure that your Plus can also support 800K disks.  Try formatting a non-high
density disk, you sure have a choice between One-sided and Two-sided.  If
you can't format at 800K (Two-sided) then any disk you wish to use on both
machines will have to be formatted as One-sided (400K).

Other than this any non-high-density disk should work fine on both Macs and
you shouldn't need the same system version.

Good Luck

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Steve Day
N7VHY