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Article #34644Re: Disk help
From: lgeorge
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 08:29
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 08:29
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In article <13450@genrad.UUCP>, dmm@genrad.com (Dottie MacKeen) writes:
> Has anyone seen this problem and can you help with diagnosis/treatment
>
> A couple weeks ago we began having problems creating MacIntosh system
> & application disks from what we believed to be good disks. When we
> tried to use the new disks, the system seemed to think the floppy disk
> was divided into two physical disks (sometimes the icon would just
> move from the top right to the next position - sometimes there were
> two icons). Files were hidden although the disk space used count
> indicated that the files/folders were there. In some cases, the disk
> appeared to contain the system folder (which was hidden in some
> instances) but could not read data files on another disk (would
> indicate the disk was empty). In one case, when we copied system
> files from a hard disk that we believe to have files installed from
> distribution disks, the icon for the laser printer and laser prep were
> incorrect - showed up as sheets of paper. When we tried to use the
This problem sounds familiar. The last time I had this problem was when
I tried to run a non-HFS system on a HFS formatted disk.
Can I suggest that you check your system/finder combination, and see if it is
this problem? Otherwise, just update all you sytem folders to either of the
following combinations...
{System 4.3 (or 4.2 depending on which
{ country you're in - for those reading
System Tools 5 { this out of curiosity)
{
{Finder 6.0
===============================================================================
{System 6.0.2 (not 6.0 or 6.01)
System Tools 6 {
{Finder 6.1
George Stamatopoulos
Computer Systems Officer @ Lincoln School of Health Sciences
Melbourne Australia
Disclaimer : I'm just going on experience, and no, noone here understands thi
message, so how could they fire me!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!murdu!ucsvc!mvax!lgeorge From: lgeorge@melbcae.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Disk help Message-ID: <238@melbcae.edu.au> Date: 21 Nov 88 08:29:47 GMT References: <13450@genrad.UUCP> Lines: 38