Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <3d7aa99a.0308252008.4d3aaa65@posting.google.com>,
Willi Kusche <willi@wilserv.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>    Any suggestions as to how to do that?  Copying on a IIgs puts some
>of the blocks on the second side of the output disk.  I'm wondering if
>a program that copies 8 blocks (a track) then writes 8 blocks of nulls
>and repeats that sequence will cause all 800 blocks of the input disk
>to wind up one side of the output disk.
>

Possibly the ProDOS system utilities may work if it doesn't insist on
reformatting the disk.  Use davex or something similar to format the disk
as single-sided. (eg, init .51 -1 ).  Then use a disk copy pgm to copy
blocks.  This may not work because the MFS disk may have data that
doesn't fit in the 512 byte blocks.  There were a copy of utils to extract
files from HFS disks (HFSlink was one, the other name escapes me at the
moment), but I do not know if they work on MFS disks also.  Get an old mac
running system 4 or 5 (?) and trying converting the disk to HFS.  I have
some old Mac 400K external drives if that helps.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)