Re: IIGS Questions, System 6?

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <38DA807F.30105A4A@webzone.net>, Stingray
<stingray@webzone.net> wrote:

> Stephan Manchir wrote:
> 
> >  I seem to have fallen victim to the floppy drive problem I
> > read about in the FAQ...My Mac (a PowerMac 6100/66) appears to write a
> > diskcopy just fine, but the disks are unusable in the //gs.
> 
> Some PPC Macs have a problem writing bootable prodos disks. Mine does. I
> got around this problem by downloading the disk images to my power Mac,
> dragging them over to a Mac IIsi via AppleTalk, and then writing them to
> disk on that machine. I've had no problem writing prodos disks on any of
> the 68k Macs that I've tried it on.

My PPC Mac can't create bootable copies of ProDOS DiskCopy images, but it
can create bootable _blank_ ProDOS disks, and I can copy the files over.
Weird, huh?

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