Carl, In case you're interested, you can make drives cross-platform with either of these products: <http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/> <http://www.dataviz.com/products/macopener/> Rick > According to "The Missing Manual" if I open Disk Utilities, select a > volume ( in a usb floppy drive) I should be able to format it by > choosing MS-DOS File System under the Erase tab. > Unfortunately the only options available are two Mac formats and UNIX. > > Can someone help with this? > > Carl