Re: Write IIgs disks from Mac ?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Gee I seem to recall saying that it had to be a Sony drive
in my reply.

--
--
William R. Strutts - wrstrutts1@home.com - Whatever!

C'est moi!  http://www.facelink.com/wrstrutts

Just hacking away...
"Jonathyn Bet'nct" <jonrelay@napanet.net> wrote in message
news:3b3e3d72$1_3@corp.newsgroups.com...
> "Steven Palm" <n9yty@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:n9yty-2806012210280001@192.168.42.242...
> > I have tried, using a PowerPC 6100 at work under MacOS 9.1, to make
disks
> > from the System disks from Apple and other sources I've found.  DiskCopy
> > reports a successful disk creation, but when I try to boot I get a
"UNABLE
> > TO LOAD PRODOS" or similar error message.
> >
> > Now, I also tried making the same disk on my Classic at home using
> > DiskCopy 4.2 and System 7.1, and it worked fine.  Strange...
> >
> > I then loaded DiskCopy 4.2 on the PowerPC 6100 at work and tried again
> > from the same image file, and it couldn't make a bootable disk.  I took
a
> > drive out of the Apple IIgs enclosure, put it into the 6100, and wrote
the
> > disk again.  Still no go.  I put the Mac drive into the IIgs enclosure,
> > and it would boot the one I made on the Classic, but not anything made
on
> > the 6100.
>
> Oh yes, this is all so familiar to me. Don't pay attention to anybody
else's
> response to this, I'm the only one who knows what he's doing when it comes
> to this specific problem. Some people say that PowerMacs won't work. Well,
> guess what, some of them do!
>
> There are a few reasons why this isn't working:
>
> First, somewhere around MacOS 8.5 or so, Apple started tacking on resource
> forks to every single ProDOS file, no matter if you liked it or not. This
> screws up a lot of ProDOS software (ShrinkIt being the most apparent).
>
> Second, I haven't really found any patterns or explanations yet, but the
> success rate of creating ProDOS disks on Macs ranges from system to
system.
> A while ago I collected a short list of configurations that worked and
> didn't work:
>
> PowerMac 7100/66 @ 88MHz
> DiskCopy: fails
> Mac Finder: succeeds
>
> iMac 233 (Bondi rev A) @ 266MHz
> DiskCopy: fails
> Mac Finder: succeeds
>
> PowerBook 5300c
> DiskCopy: succeeds
> Mac Finder: succeeds
>
> However, there is one thing that explains this; it seems that Sony floppy
> drives are better at writing ProDOS disks than other drives are. Older Mac
> models used Sony drives, so that's why so many people believe PowerMacs
> won't work (although the above shows differently).
>
> I have a three-step process:
>
> 1. Copy all the files from the ProDOS disk to a new folder on the desktop.
> 2. Erase the disk in the Mac Finder (be sure to select ProDOS 800K).
> 3. Copy all the files back.
>
> This may or may not actually work, but it's worth every try.
>
>
>
>
> -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
> http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
> -----==  Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----