Re: DaynaFILE II question...

["Vartan" <vartan@adelphia.net>]

The DaynaFILE II drivers I have do not support the Apple PC 5.25 drive, 
however the special version of DOS Mounter included with it does. So, once I
track it down I may be able to help you with that. However, a few things:

1> Anything past System 7 will mount maybe 1 out of 5 disks and not give you
wierd error messages, and allow you to see the files and copy them.
2> Don't attempt to write to the disk unless you have lots of time,
patience, and blank disks.
3> Non-DOS filesystems make DOS Mounter flip out with that particular drive
(I tried the ProDOS trick too)
4> The card was indeed only compatible with either the SE (PDS) or the Mac
II series (NuBUS) and this only included those that could take fullsize
nubus cards without adaptors, ie not the IIsi, AFAIK.
5> Slightly nonstandard disks make the computer crash hardcore, whether it's
system 6 or 7, though the most spectacular occur under 7 (of course). This
means disks with copyprotection, disks with unusual formats, disks that use
any sort of driver level compression. Sierra games come to mind, at least
the early bootable ones.
6> Yes, don't even think about OS 8 or beyond...I mean it.
7> Putting a crappy, old version of DOS Mounter on your system in
combination with PC Exchange or File Exchange (not Apple File Exchange) is
bad news.

Your best option for the ProDOS on a mac dilemma is a LC with the IIe card
and a 5.25 drive, sadly you'll never see the disk on the desktop....but at
least you can image them or copy files directly to a disk which *is* mounted
in the finder (a ProDOS HD partition) from within the IIe environment. This
works beautifully for working with terrible multidisk things like GEOS which
normally doesn't cope well being manipulated outside of GEOS

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In article <a868rq$6j3$1@opus.pdx.net>, you@somehost.somedomain (Bart)
wrote:


> supply. That was good enough to try it out on an Apple II.
>>Now if the Mac read and write PC formatted 5.25" disks on it and maybe
>>with AppleTalk put them on my IIgs or IIe desktop then it gets more
>>interesting.
>
> I am indeed also curious and would also like these drivers or any OTHER 5.25
> drivers that might be out there because...I am curious if they or another
> driver would allow a Apple PC Drive to be mounted on the desktop. The Apple PC
> Drive is the 5.25 360k original Apple cross-platform solution which plugs into
> either a special SE capable PDS card or a Mac II (only! as far as I can tell;
> it would be nice if it worked in say a Quadra 950 or a 7100) Nubus card and
> works in OS 7.1 (but not in 7.5.n) in AFE but will NOT mount said disk on the
> Finder desktop.  I am looking for a way to do this and also to do this in a
> more weird format. I want to mount a ProDOS 360k on the desktop.  AFE can SEE
> a 360k ProDOS formated disk (originaly created on a Diamond Trackstar or a PC
> Transporter) and recognizes it as ProDOS but says it has no translate file for
> this format....  So, how do you tell the two: Finder meet Apple PC Drive this
> is a ok disk (pat pat), PC Drive: meet Finder...  Now GET ALONG!
>   There's politics for ya!  ;)
>
> now where did I leave that paper tape reader.......
> -Bart
> Keeper of the Network from Heck
>
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