Re: HELP!! Vulcan/Copy ][+ error on //e!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
: Dave Althoff writes ...

(well, what I failed to write was that I had been using this system for a
while in the past...)

: > The disk boots fine.  It seems to function beautifully.  Using Copy ][
: > Plus 8.3, I attempt to copy some text files from 5.25" floppy to the
: > Vulcan, and everything goes haywire.  I get an "I/O ERROR BLOCK $0000".  I
: > try running a "Verify Disk" on the drive after the aborted copy, and every
: > block on the disk comes up bad.  I quit C][+ and the hard drive doesn't
: > even show up in the volume list from the quit code.
: > 
: > I do a 3-finger salute to re-boot the machine.
: > 
: > Two seconds later, the hard drive boots to my quick and dirty BASIC menu.
: > 
: > Four seconds later, the Copy ][+ menu is on the screen, and I try a disk
: > verify.  This time, the drive passes with no errors.
: > 
: > I try the copy again.  The problem recurs.
: > 
: > Okay...what's going on here?  Anyone?  Anyone?

:  ....

:      Don't know. 

Not exactly the answer I was hoping to hear, Rubywand...!  8-)

:                  Messing with Block 000 sounds kind of odd. One thing to
: check is whether or not it makes a difference that the Text file you
: want to copy is on a DOS 3.3 or ProDOS diskette. Some versions of Copy
: II+ seem to have problems copying DOS 3.3 stuff to ProDOS disks.

Hmmm...Well, the files are on a ProDOS disk.  They are files from my GS,
but as nearly as I can tell, they are plain text files (no forks), which
was the first suspicion I had.  File-A-Trix shows an icon in the directory
if the file is forked; there is no such icon for any of these files.  Hmmm...

I'll keep playing with it...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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