[comp.sys.next] Floppy drive quirks

tvz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) (02/03/91)

Anyone else run across these floppy drive problems on the NextStation?
Any advice?

1.  DOS disks cannot be ejected or initialized from Workspace Manager,
even though they can be read and no documents are opened.

2.  When copying to floppy, get message that device is full, even
though there is lots of space (it has happened with up to 500K left,
when trying to copy a 5K file - yes, I had emptied the recycler).

3.  What is the easiest way to reinitialize a DOS floppy with the UNIX
format?

Tim Van Zandt
tvz@princeton.edu
609-258-4050