Re: System disks for Apple //gs or Localtalk boot?

["ruud.dingemans" <ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl>]

Jon Bettencourt wrote:
> 
> In article <396521E8.85531EB7@wanadoo.nl>, "ruud.dingemans"
> <ruud.dingemans@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> 
> > > >> Apple //gs I get this error, "Unable to load ProDOS" (All caps of
> >
> > > I tried your suggestion... didn't work. :( I even dug up some *real*
> > > DD 800K disks and tried it, still failed. I'm wondering if the Mac
> > > 7100 1.44MB floppy drive just can't make Apple // readable 800K disks.
> >
> > It can't make *bootable* prodos disks. Older drives in 68k machines can,
> > so you need one of these. I had the exact same problem, and would've
> > suggested this to you some days ago (sparing you the trouble I had), but
> > an Email address of nospam@nospam is not very usable.
> 
> Actually, I have a PowerMac 7100 and the method in question for making
> bootable ProDOS disks _does_ work.

Yeah, it seems to be dependent on the make/type/production year of the
drive in question... However,
in general, it seems fairly certain that almost all Powermac drives
(regardless of OS version) won't make bootable
PRODOS disks, while (almost) all drives in 68k machines will (well, not
counting those old 400k ones, I doubt they'd
qualify).

Regards, RD