Re: Imaging floppies on a Mac?

[Bryan Villados <news001@macgeek.org>]

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In article <021019991253022943%bvito@ne.mediaone.net>, bvito
<bvito@ne.mediaone.net> wrote:

> I have recently purchased a ProDOS 4.0.2 3.5" system disk, and I would
> like to back it up as a disk image on my Mac, so that I can create a
> new one at any time should I mess it up in any way.  How should I go
> about this?  Should I use DiskCopy 4.2, 6.3.3, or DART?  And do I need
> to boot my PowerMac 9500 with an older system version than 8.6?  Like
> 7.6?  Thanks for the help, I need to be sure that I don't destroy my
> new system disk in the process and that the image I make will be able
> to create working, bootable disks.  thanks.

The choice of disk image software really depends on what version of Mac
OS you're planning on restoring with (yuk, bad sentence structure!)

What I'd do is use DiskCopy 6.3.3, and save the disk images in 4.2
format. That way, you can use either 4.2 or 6.3.x to restore the
images.

DART is ancient, and it's no longer supported by Apple Computer. DART
is great for Apple Lisa users, but it won't help you any on the Apple
II platform.