Re: Unable To Load Prodos

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <20000115015158.07485.00000059@ng-fj1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:
> 
> >Pim Blokland <nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:
> >> 
> >> > > > I know there is a ProDOS file on there, I checked.
> >> 
> >> How did you check? Using the same GS?
> >
> >On my Mac. I inserted the ProDOS disk and on the root level there was
> >ProDOS, BASIC.System, System, and Icons. System and Icons were folders.
> 
> You created this disk on the Mac, didn't you?  Via DiskCopy, right?
> 
> The Mac sometimes has trouble writing ProDOS disks, especially
> the boot block.  This often renders them unbootable.
>
> You have to keep running the archive through DiskCopy until the
> format "catches."  It might take two or three tries.

Actually, what happens with my computers is kind of interesting. Via
DiskCopy images, the format never catches, even after more than five
tries. However, when I format it as ProDOS in the Mac Finder and just copy
the files, it is able to boot the very first time, or if not the first
time, the second time.

Could this have been a side-effect of using what the Napa Valley College
media people said was a Mac drive on a IIgs?

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