Re: A strange disk transfer problem

[bill_gates@microsoft.com (Simon Williams)]

Jayson Smith
<nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
> I've got a very strange problem.  I can use ADT to transfer disks both ways
> just fine.  But sometimes on certain target disks, when I receive a disk
> image to be put on a real disk, everything appears to go OK, the catalog is
> right (this is DOS 3.3) but the disk won't boot.  I have no idea what it
> says on the screen because I'm blind.  Also, some Applesoft programs have
> syntax errors in weird places where there are no real errors.  On some disks
> it works fine though.  Also I can use the nonworking disks for other
> purposes just fine.  Reinitializing the disks doesn't help.  Bulk erasing
> then initializing the disks doesn't help.  It's like sometimes disks just go
> bad for certain things, which doesn't sound right at all.  Any advice?
> Jayson.

Seems I've encountered something similar with disk images on "2 in a
Mac". Sometimes people forget to change the storage order to ProDos when
making a disk image with Asimov (the default order is Dos 3.3). I found
in these cases I was able to catalog the disks but not boot from them,
and the phantom Syntax Errors rings a bell too... of course that doesn't
really address the fact that your problem seems limited to particular
disks, but it's all I have - hope it helps :)

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