Re: (bootable) ProDOS floppies from Power Mac

["Lee Cremeans" <lee@lcremeans.homeip.net>]

"Simon Williams" <*email*@*luddite.ca*> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:45:07 -0800 "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
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> > "Simon Williams" <*email*@*luddite.ca*> wrote in message
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> > > Hello nay-sayers.
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> > > I recall some time past, there was a thread discussing the
impossibility
> > > of creating bootable ProDOS disks from a Mac with a 'force-feed'
floppy
> > > drive. Seems it ain't necessarily so. Anyway, for what it's worth,
> > > here's what I've managed to pull-off:
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> > Are you able to boot a IIgs with the disk you create?  You don't
> > specifically mention that.
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> Yes. I've made both GS/OS 5 & 6 and ProDOS startup disks this way... :)

I've been able to do it too, back when I had a working floppy drive. I think
part of the problem is using 1.44 MB (2MB unformatted) media; it works fine
in an old Sony auto-inject drive, but the newer Power Mac floppies do
something funny with the write current (I'm guessing) and write a fainter
image.

I've usually been able to get around this by writing each disk in a ProDOS
set twice; the resulting disk works great on either one of my machines. Of
course, you should use real DS-DD disks if you can find them. I have a
couple here, and I'm going to see if my Power Mac 7600 handles them any
better once my new floppy drive arrives.

-lee