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Re: ProDOS floppy crashes Mac O/S 7.6.1 running on a Powerbook 520c

Subject: Re: ProDOS floppy crashes Mac O/S 7.6.1 running on a Powerbook 520c
From: AppleCPM <a2@wilserv.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi!

On Jun 17, 8:53 pm, Michael wrote:
> I'm not a Mac guy, but doesn't MacOS like to "decorate" any write-enabled
> floppy with a Finder file?
> I'm guessing it died trying to allocate space in a "broken" bitmap or
> directory.

    Exactly!  I ran Glen Bredon's "MR.FIXIT" on the disk.  It reported
"8_<-Block in use".  Neither the 'F' or 'M' options of that program
was able to repair the problem.  The only way to make the disk usable
was to reformat it.

    OK, so what does "Block in use" mean?  Guess it's time to RTFM...

Willi

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