Re: ADTgs issues

["Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com>]

This is going to sound stupid, but is the disk formatted?  I got a
similar error using ADT for the Apple II and that was what the problem
was.

On Oct 16, 7:41 pm, "Miles Attacca" <milesatta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I finally dug through my tangle of cables and found a PC COM <-> Apple
> modem port connector, and successfully transferred ADTgs over to a
> floppy as directed in the readme, then loaded it. After this, I put
> about half a dozen disk images I'd downloaded into ADT.exe's directory
> as instructed, connected (at 9600 baud), and made sure ADT could list
> them properly on the Apple. However, in attempting to transfer the
> images (again, following the instructions to a T), I kept getting an
> error akin to "not a 16-sector disk."
>
> After this, I typed in ADTCheck and made sure the given ADTgs 0.91
> numbers and the generated checksum matched up (they did), and tried a
> few more images, experimenting with speeds between 300 and 9600 baud.
> Still, no success. Does anyone have ideas on what the problem might be,
> or offer a link to an image that's been used successfully before?
>
> For what it's worth, I'm using a Windows XP machine, and since I have
> only one 5.25 drive (off of which I BLOADed ADT), after loading I
> switched off to the disk to be written to (and made sure the proper
> drive/slot were selected in ADTgs). The 5.25 to be written to had also
> been formatted just for the occasion.
> 
> Thanks in advance. I'm lucky it's such a busy place around here. :)