Re: 5.25" Disks to Use in Apple IIgs and copy .dsk image files to Apple

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Joel Ostroski wrote:
>Hello I have two questions.
>
>1) I have Sony 5.25" Double Sided High Density Diskettes.  Will they work in
>a iigs 5.25" floppy drive?  Reason I ask is that I ran copya to copy a dos
>3.3 disk and is copied but it would not boot.  I booted off the original
>floppy dos 3.3 disk and catalog'ed the copy and the files were there.  I
>also get errors on the disks.
>
>2) I have a bunch of .DSK images of apple ii software, I have used apple
>disk transfer gs and have made a null modem cable.  I can transfer the
>program dump file that needed to be sent to the iigs to run for file
>transfer but anything that I write to disks (the type of disks outlined in
>question #1) they do not boot.  The images to work in my emulator though.
>When I made a ProDOS disk it stated UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS
>
>I have this iigs but only 1 disk and that is the DOS 3.3 disk.  NOTHING
>ELSE.  I would sure like to use my disk images to make workable floppies to
>run on my iigs.
>
>Your help is appreciated!

Sorry, you can't use HD floppies. You will need the older double density type.
Believe it or not but you can still find them, but you may need to shop around
or try mail order.

Phoenyx