Re: Made an imaged disk, but can't do much with it

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

cph1776@gmail.com wrote:
> Greg Buchner wrote:
>
> > So first off, what version of Mac OS are you using?
>
>
> 8.6 .....
>
> Well, anyway, I was able to convert a .2mg image from one of the
> emulators into a Diskcopy 4.2 image, and use that to create a disk
> readable on the Apple II GS. So that took care of the filetype
> problem...
>
> But a new problem has come up: although I can display the disk's
> directory, these imaged disks are full of I/O errors, and I can't
> read/run any files! (A quick verify with Copy II Plus
> showed almost every other block with some sort of an error....)
>
> I tried writing the image to two different disks, so that rules out
> problems with any particular piece of media. Could it be that the disk
> drives need re-aligning or something?
>
> Once again, thanks in advance!

I'd suggest formatting the disks on your IIgs--but of course you
don't have formatting software!  ;-(

I've seen this problem with Mac-formatted disks, but it went away
when the disks were formatted on the II and written to by the Mac.

-michael

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