[P1] Slow Floppy

[Guy McMickle]

Ok, so I formatted one of my floppies for Mac OS Standard w/ OS 9 
drivers...and now it's only got 500k available?? What the hell is that??

-Guy McMickle


On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 12:57  AM, Guy McMickle wrote:

>
> On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 06:03  PM, David Linker wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this would be relevant, but is the floppy formatted 
>> for Mac or MS-DOS?
>>
>> I was using a USB flash-RAM that was very slow, and was formatted for 
>> MS-DOS. I re-formatted it for Mac-OS and the speedup was spectacular.
>
> Ya know, I think you're on to something.  I usually keep all my disks 
> formatted for PC so that I can be compatible with the rest of the 
> world.  I'll have to test your theory.  Thanks!
>
> -Guy McMickle
>
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