Re: Disk imaging

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <38B09738.B5706126@intergate.bc.ca>, Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> writes:
>I personally think it's a tossup betweem Shrinkit and the Macintosh Disk Copy.
>The nice thing about Disk Copy is you can produce disks on both a Mac and
>an Apple II.

Could you tell me a little more about the Disk Copy program?

>About 4 years ago I used ShrinkitGS to make disk images of the 500+ disk
>ApplesBC IIgs library. Shrinkit balked at almost any kind of corruption.

Heh, I'm afraid I had a part of why that collection was that big. I wonder
how many people remember the dreaded "Herbster" uploads.

>Usually the first thing I tried with a problem disk was to make a bit copy of it.
>
>That helped where the disk wasn't really corrupted but the patern was so weak
>the IIgs had difficulty reading it.

That's an idea. Is there anything that can be done with disks that refuse to mount?

Also, is it a good idea to "refresh" an old disk with a copy, or is the media
degraded to a useless state. If the latter is true, that would be sad as I would
prefer to keep the original disks with their labels.