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In article <90097.131238CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>,
 CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes: 
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> While I've never seen the particular behavior you describe here, I am
> generally unimpressed by the behaviour of the FDHD drives.  One day, I tried
> to format a stack of HD disks in an SE that had these drives.  Out of five
> disks, I eventually got *one* of them to format, I think on the fourth try.
>

S'funny.  I have good luck with them.  Unless I use cheap disks- then things 
suddenly stop working...

 
> There seems to be a historical difficulty with Macintosh disk drives -- they
> generally have a hard time formatting disks.  The student microcomputer lab
> attendants here at Penn State have come up with a standard practice for
> dealing with disks that fail to initialize (in old-style drives):  format
> them in an IBM PS/2 first, then try again.  It works pretty well....
> 

In the place where I work, we have to format MS-DOS 720K 3.5" disks on a 
Mac SE under Apple File Exchange- the MS-DOS drives just can't seem to do
a good format...

> Am I deluded, or do the Macs have weaker magnetic fields when they write
> to their disks than other computers?  It would certainly seem that way....
> 

It might just be the disks... I usually take the disk out of the drive and
turn the hub by hand.  That can make them work (sometimes).  Alignment probs?

Chad Irby
ac08@untvax
vaxa.acs.unt.edu