Re: Problem loading prodos on IIGS

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <20000726195139.29480.00000120@ng-cp1.aol.com>,
Nach4321 <nach4321@aol.com> wrote:
>I can't seem to get a disk with PRODOS to boot on my ROM 3 GS.  I formated a
>double sided disk on a Quadra 660 and went to the Apple site and downloaded the
>ver.6 of the GS OS.  I put it on this disk and tried to boot it from an AE 3.5
>drive.  It says "Unable to load Prodos".  My 'Apple tour of your IIGS' disk
>boots and runs fine.  What am I doing wrong?  Any help would be apprieciated.

Boy, posts like this make a fellow glad that Nathan left this group. That
reminds me, the third year of Nathanlessness here started earlier this month.

Anyway, the deal is that if you're trying to download Disk Copy images of
the IIgs system software and write 'em to ProDOS floppies on a Mac, you'll
get best results if you format 'em on an Apple II. That was what I determined
when experimenting to refute Nathan's claim that newer floppy drives in Macs
wouldn't make Apple II friendly disks. If you format 'em with the Mac, they
do tend to fail to boot and give the unable to load message.
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