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That will depend on what drivers you use on both your PCs and Macs. And to be more exactly, what formatting utilities and drivers do you use in your PC and what drivers are you installing on your Mac Syquests. First the PC side. Yes you are right, sometimes you won't get a Syquest formatted on a PC to read on a Mac and even another PC with a different SCSI card/driver combination. Why? Because there are hardware manufacturers that in one way or another include their own stuff on their drivers and formatting utilities. Low-level stuff, but enough to make a Syquest or any other removable (take the example of MOs) unreadable in other machines, no matter if it is a PC, a Mac or an SGI workstation. The solution: Keep with mainstream software and hardware. If you go away with some special stuff that are not 100% with the standard, chances are that you are going to get into trouble. In the Mac to Mac side it is more easy. Your problem is most probably caused by the an old driver installed on your Syquest. As you probably know, disk drivers are installed on a partition on each Mac disks (hard drives, Syquest, MOs…). If you have a driver in a cartridge that doesn't comply with current Apple SCSI Manager 4.3 specifications you could have a problem (only old drivers will cause you problems, specially with PowerMacs -updates are widely available and most probably for free). The same if you recieve a Syquest formatted with the latest drivers and you have an old copy of the system software. In both ways, the problem could easily being track down and solved. SyQuest clones manufacturers could be a source of problem too since some of them tend to add stuff of their own. Again, stay with the standard 🙂 ana /krazy images