Re: Copying files from 3.5 disk to 5.25 disk

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

Here are a few thoughts.
First, try moving the 3.5 drives to slot 5.  On a GS, that's where they're
located.  It may be that some programs are expecting 3.5 disks in slot 5 and
not 7.
Also, if you have a copy of Davex, try using that.  A copy can be obtained
from Asimov.
Also, did you get any interesting stuff from those disks?  As in, any useful
programs, etc?
Just a few thoughts, and I have no idea if they're even valid.
Jayson.

"Curt" <dare2be@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> To make a short story long:
>
> Yesterday I decided to resurrect my Enhanced Apple //e out of my
> storage closet to transfer my apple disks to my PC APPLEWIN emulator
> using ADT1.22.  Everything went surprisingly smoothly...I got it all
> set up and working and transferred over 30 disks in a few hours.
>
> However, here is my dilemma...I have a half dozen or so 3.5 800k
> prodos disks, which while I know I can't transfer the images directly,
> I wanted to copy some of the files onto 5.25 prodos disks and transfer
> those images.
>
> The setup on my Apple //e is as follows:
>
> Slot 7, 2 daisy-chained 3.5 disk drives
> Slot 6, 2 5.25 disk drives
>
> I ran CopyIIplus (not sure of the version, maybe 7.1) from the 3.5
> drive, slot 7, drive 1, and when I went to the copy function, it did
> not give me an option for slot 6, even though I had a prodos formatted
> disk in slot 6 drive 1 or 2.
>
> So then I used Apple System Utilities, it allowed me to select slot 6,
> yet when I attempted the copy I got an I/O error, saying to check that
> a disk is in the drive and the drive door is closed, yadda yadda.
> What am I doing wrong, if anything?  My first thought was just a bad
> disk, so I tried to format a brand new 5.25 prodos disk, yet I got the
> same I/O error when trying to format.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Curt