Simon D. Williams wrote: > On 22 Jan 2006, Warren Ernst wrote: > >> All, >> >> I seem to recall reading that at a certain point in the Macintosh's >> history, its ability to successfully read and write ProDOS 3.5" disks >> got clobbered. >> >> Does anyone know when? > > AFAIK OSX did away with ProDOS support... I believe OS9 can handle > physical ProDOS diskettes, but I don't have the hardware to test that > theory... at least it can mount disk images with no problem. > >> Or more specifically, will the Quadra 650 I just found in my storage >> facility be able to make ProDOS disks OK? Or must I revert back to my >> IIfx (also in storage) for this task? > > It should work just fine... I'd recommend getting a copy of DiskDup+, as > it seems to support ProDOS diskettes much better than Disk Copy. > >> I know the IIfx has the "auto inject" floppy drive, while the Quadra >> 650 has the later "manual inject" floppy drive. > > I've made bootable ProDOS disks on a manual inject drive many times... > again DiskDup+ is the key... if you do have probs you could always just > swap over the drives, which is pretty easily done on most macs. > > ._____. SIMON WILLIAMS :::::::: LUDDITE ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED > |[LD8]! 8-BIT SOUND & FURY : APPLE ][ AUDIO & MUSIC RESOURCES > | o. | +------- http://8bitsoundandfury.no-ip.info/ -------+ > !__!__! OLD APPLE WEB SERVER LIST http://www.ld8.org/servers/ > I believe all non PPC & Non x86 macs can read GCR ie. Prodos disks Mark Frischknecht
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