Re: corrupted floppies

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Dan Bethe writes ...
> 
> Hi there.  I'm having trouble with corrupted floppies.  I have a ROM01
> //gs with 1280K RAM, a vulcan 20 meg IDE drive, an 800K apple floppy
> drive, and GS/OS 6.0.1 freshly installed.
>         My Linux pc is connected to the Internet and I have a Mac and > the //gs
> sitting unconnected.  The Mac 7500 with its Superdrive floppy, is my
> FAT-to-ProDOS utility.  Before I got my Apple color RGB monitor, I was
> going to use its RGB video digitizer card as a //gs monitor!  ;->
>         Do you guys have any suggestions?  I wonder if the Mac is > adding
> garbage to these files?  But why would PC Exchange behave in this way
> with floppies that all my systems analyze just fine?  All of these > files
> were downloaded from known working sites that I collected from this
> newsgroup, such as http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2 but the story's
> always the same.


     There are a number of ways your downloads could be messed up.


> Please send all responses to email, as I might lose
> this in csa2!  Then all your typing will be wasted

 .... 


     No problem. What I'll do is email a copy of the newsgroup FAQs for
Uploading & Downloading ...

ref: ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/Faqs .



Rubywand