Re: Unable to load Prodos

["Jon Bettencourt" <jonrelay@napanet.net>]

"Benjamin O Zotto" <zotto@fas.harvard.nospam.edu> wrote in message
news:97jf3p$2gk$1@news.fas.harvard.edu...
> > My problem:
> > I took the first Disk-Installer- in the floppy but
> > on the wonderful blue screen ( shocking: it`s a Microsoft Program?)
> > can I read the words: "Unable to load Prodos"
>
> Roland,
> You are most likely using a newer (PowerPC era) Macintosh to make the
> disk images.  Unfortunately, Apple changed the floppy drive hardware
> several years ago so that writing ProDOS disks was less reliable, even
> though the process *appears* successful on the Mac.
>
> The solution appears to be to find a pre-powerPC Mac to do the same
> thing with.  If this is not viable, you might consider buying system
> disks from Mike Westerfield at the ByteWorks (www.byteworks.org) and
> then go from there.

I'm tired of this; _not_all_PowerPC's_make_unbootable_ProDOS_disks_. I have
a PowerMac 7100 and _it_works_.

I just have to use Finder to format it instead of DiskCopy.

Short list of Macintosh setups and programs that successfully make ProDOS
disks [including an iMac!]:
http://kreativekorp.cjb.net/download/a2info/acrdblpd.htm