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A funny thing happened tonight.

Remember there was a time when solutions were suggested concerning re-
formatting floppies that seemed suspect? Well, every now and then, the Finder
will reject the "erase disk" disk option on a floppy. What I did was to
bring these shonky disks to a PC and format it as a DOS disk and used 
DOS Mounter to use these as spare disks.

Tonight, after installing AccessPC on my HD, I proceeded to reformat those
disks which I formatted as DOS disks. I was disappointed that the AccessPC
still didn't provide SoftPC a real "format a:" but only allowed the formatting
of floppies in the Finder, and then only formatting them as if done using
Apple File Exchange. Well, these floppies failed to be reinitialized. As I
don't have a PC at home, I clicked the Mac option for erasing the disk this
time, a disk that had failed many times previously. To my amasement, this
one and subsequent others were reported as successfully reformatted!! As
Mac disks which was impossible before!! What gives? Floppies in a past life
as Mac reformatted rejects, cannot be formatted as DOS disks again, but can
instead be formatted as Mac ones!!! I'm ???????? about it.

Any theories?

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