Re: Problems with disk images to disk

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Labelas Enoreth writes ...
> 
> Has anyone here tried making disk images back into disks, with a 5.25
> drive attached to a IIe emulation card in a Mac LC-series computer?
> I've been using DSK2FILE, and while it yields fine images, I have been
> totally unsuccessful in getting any kind of usable disk, have tried many
> different images, disks, and even drives. If there perhaps a better
> program to use?

     DSK2FILE is a good program to use. (ASIMOV is good, too; but, it
must run on a IIgs.)

     A fairly common reason for a .dsk ---> diskette conversion to fail
is that the target diskette is not formatted or has some weird format.
In most cases, you will get good results if the target diskette is newly
formatted for DOS 3.3. You can do this via Copy II+ or via an INIT under
DOS 3.3.

     The usual setting for conversions is "DOS Order". If you know the
.dsk file is a ProDOS image, use the "ProDOS Order" setting.

     A good .dsk file almost always has an 'actual file size' of 143360
bytes. (The on-disk size may be much smaller.)  If you are getting
downloads of .dsk files which end up larger than 143,360 bytes,
something is probably wrong in the downloads or in the transfers to your
Apple II card. (BTW, .dsk.gz files are _compressed_ disk image files.
They need to be uncompressed using WinZip or some similar utility to
obtain .dsk files.)



Rubywand