home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!convex!news.utdallas.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!umbc4.umbc.edu!grabenst
- From: grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS --> Mac Conversion
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.013117.9112@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 01:31:17 GMT
- References: <5472@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Sender: newspost@umbc3.umbc.edu (News posting account)
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
- Lines: 23
-
- In article <5472@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500dat@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (David Tulchinsky) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I have been having some problems with converting files
- >between IBM ATs with 3.5in drives running dos 3.3 and
- >to a Mac IIci. It seems that the Mac does not recongnize
- >the AT formatted disk. Is the version of MS-DOS I am running
- >current enough?? Would upgrading the ATs to DOS 5.0 correct
- >the problem??
- >
- The problem probably is the fact that you are using
- an IBM :-)Seriously though the IBM 3.5 inch drives don't care
- what kind of disk you put in them when you format it. Say you
- put in a DS/DD disk into your mac...The Mac knows to format
- it at 400 or 800k only. The IBM does not. It will format it at
- whatever you would like. My geuss is that you have a DS/DD disk
- that has about 1 M free on it. The Mac looks at it and only
- tries to read a 720k format Not 1.44M.
-
- Later,
- Mike
- ZMEG@AACC.bitnet
- or grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
-