Quote:Originally posted by Billium: Nevermind. The 800K and 400K floppy drives in older compact Macs have a very hard time using them in a PC, given that the formatting requires that whackass variable speed crap in the old Mac's.New Macs and PC's (always) use the standard crap 1.4MB floppy drive, and forsake compatibility with the 800k and 400k floppy drive of the old compact Mac.You can try using WinImage to dupe an old 800k floppy disk, but I doubt that it'll work for you.The floppy drive just isn't up to it.Also, some later Mac's in the Mac II series, IIRC, did some weird crap to the 800k/400k format floppies and would read them as only single sided when they were in fact double sided (the 800k floppies).On Macs with OS 7.x and later, IIRC, you get DOS compatibility for floppy reads and writes with nothing extra necessary.Considering the cost of appletalk to ethernet bridge devices, forget about it.Null modem is your best bet, or to try to get the floppies from someone with an older mac (the ones that auto-eject are the ones you need to look at) who can format/copy the disks for you, or create them from the disk images you can find on the web.I forget, but there's that one site with all the old MacOS versions ready for download (no, I'm not talking Apple's FTP, but rather every single freakin version ever made).-Agent Monkey
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