Re: Strange IIgs error

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Noah Sager <noahsager@mac.com> wrote

>
> Let's get this straight:
>
> When I took the "PRODOS" file from a GS system disk I used to get the
START.GS.OS error, but then
> I messed around with some files and now I get the "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS"
error. My disk drive
> shows no indication of failure and I cleaned it yesterday, so that is not
the problem.
>
> I try to minimize problems by using a ProDOS partition I made when I
formatted my hard drive.
>

OK, if you are using a Mac to copy the files, the Mac may be forking the
files. I tried copying files from a ProDos floppy to a ProDos partition on
my Mac, and it still forked them, making them useless. One way to get around
this is to download the GS OS system  disks from Apple's FTP site, and use
DiskCopy on the Mac to transfer the disk images to 800K ProDos floppies.
Try to find DiskCopy 4.2, I think there are problems with newer versions and
ProDos images.
-Paul