Re: Copy ][+ Error $51!?

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

Edhel Iaur, Esq. (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
: My 3.5 copy of AppleWorks 3 said "Error loading ATINIT" (on my //c, no
: less), so I tried using Copy ][+ 9.1 to copy ProDOS 2.0.3 over the top
: of the apparently broken copy of ProDOS 1.7 on the AppleWorks disk.
: As expected, Copy ][+ said "File PRODOS already exists & is locked.",
: and I chose "[C]opy anyway".  It then ran the drive, cleared the
: screen, and informed me so:

: Error $51

: Does anybody know what the heck this means?  Should I just toss this
: copy of AW and salvage what I can?  Is my AW disk physically damaged?
: I told Copy ][+ to scan the disk for errors, and it found none.

--SNIP!--

If memory serves me right, I believe that $51 is a ProDOS MLI error
code meaning "I/O error." I would copy all the other files to another
disk, as I don't think that AW 3.0 is copy protected.

	Stavros

BTW, I/O error can be anything, not just a  bad block on the disk.