Re: Need help, 5.25 disks and IIgs

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

Ahhh, so much information...thanks, let me see where to start...

> 004B (ProDOS Error $4B, ...)-  is an "unsupported (or incorrect) storage
> type" error. This error seems often to indicate that a file claims to have a
> resource fork but does not. Sometimes a file transfer involving a Mac results
> in this sort of corruption.
Well, some of the files were copied from a mac onto a prodos disk, but
they had been residing on a prodos drive on the mac. Others had been made
right on the IIgs. I think a few of them had had improper file types when
on the mac, so I used ctc to change them from 'TEXT BINA' to whatever the
type was for the disk image, I think it was BINA though not sure, may have
just been p<gibberish> and the type to pdos.
 
>      When you consider all of the bother and wasted time due to resource
> forks, there is no way whatever advantage they were supposed to offer will
> ever come remotely close to compensating. Like most kludges, the resource
> fork was a bad idea.
Well, if it weren't for the resource fork, mac stuff would probably be a
lot less graceful to deal with. And easy to tweak. However, if the IIgs
didn't really use it in any meaningful way than perhaps it would have been
better off without it. But I know I use ResEdit on my Mac very often.
 
>      Regarding DOS 3.3 Launcher and associated programs like Copier, if you
> use a disk image created by some other utility, it must have ProDOS sector
> ordering and filetype User#1. Something else which may snag a former IIe user
> is that you need to use a different version of Copier when you move to the
> IIgs.
Yeah, I'm using the right version of copier, I redownloaded it to make sure.
As for the images, I thought DOS3.3 launcher wanted .do format images? not
.po? Well, I'll check again. But I also tried imaging it right there with
the copier prog as well...and for the filetype I used the copier utility
to set the proper options and it gave it the correct filetype for me.
 
>      Finally, just in case you forgot, the target diskette for Asimov or
> DSK2FILE needs to be 16-sector formatted-- e.g. INITed under DOS 3.3.
Hm. Does a GS/OS finder prodos format count? I used to prodos format it in
shrinkit and that always worked...