Re: IIgs System Software??

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Brad Korponay asked:

>Brad Korponay wrote:
>> I picked up a IIgs at a garage sale recently and have since begun my 
>> quest to get something running on it. It's a ROM 03 w/2Mb RAM.
>> 
>> I've downloaded the 7 System Disks from Apple on my PC and transferred 
>> them to my PowerMac. I then used Disk Copy to copy them onto 800K 
>> floppies. When I try to boot from these floppies, I get the message 
>> "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS". What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance, Brad
>> 
>
>btw, the images transfered from the PC to the PowerMac aren't the cause. 
>  Stuffit extracted the disk images correctly.

A lot of folks have problems with the 800KB disks that some PowerMacs
write.  The newer (non-superdisk) 3.5" drives are not variable-speed like the
older drives, and they seem to push the disk recording tolerances to the
breaking point.

You could try again (but you probably already have), or you could find
an older Mac.  Writing the 800KB disk images on a variable-speed 3.5"
drive will make all the difference.

-michael

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