Re: Disk imaging

[Stingray <stingray@webzone.net>]

Wayne Stewart wrote:

> I personally think it's a tossup betweem Shrinkit and the Macintosh Disk Copy.
> The nice thing about Disk Copy is you can produce disks on both a Mac and
> an Apple II.
> About 4 years ago I used ShrinkitGS to make disk images of the 500+ disk
> ApplesBC IIgs library. Shrinkit balked at almost any kind of corruption.
> Where upon I'd get to work with the disk utilities and usually manage to
> resurect the files. The library went back to 1986 and I shudder to think how
> many of those early disks had problems and how many hours I spent doing
> repairs. While we still have the floppy disks, everything is also archived on CD.
>
> Like yourself I found many very old disks still good while some newer ones
> had problems. However the percentage of old disks with problems was far far
> greater than the more recent ones.
> Usually the first thing I tried with a problem disk was to make a bit copy of it.
>
> That helped where the disk wasn't really corrupted but the patern was so weak
> the IIgs had difficulty reading it.

Disk Copy gets my vote as the best disk imaging SW, plus you can write those images
back to disk on an A2 with Clone. Shrinkit is mandatory, though, if you're doing any
downloading.

I've always felt that floppies are way too unreliable for anything but moving from
one HD to another (at least I've felt this way since I got my first HD). I don't
feel that anything is safe until I have at least two copies of it, preferably one on
a HD and one on a CD.


Stingray

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