Re: Option Board is NOT a Disk II emulator!

[sinykal@cyberspace.org (Scott Earnest)]

In article <32002B10.2CBB@mc.net> "anomaly3@mc.net" <anomaly3@mc.net> writes:

>The Copy II PC Option Board does *NOT* emulate the Disk II controller 
>card in any way! All it does is allow the disk drive to read Macintosh 
>800K disks, and read and/or duplicate IBM and Apple diskettes, with or 
>without write-protection. It also will *NOT* let you "read in" the 
>information off of a diskette and save it as an image file.

Gee, Tony, you were doing pretty well up until that point.  :-)  Yes, you 
*can* create disk images with the Option Board.  In either TC.EXE or 
TCM.EXE, if you specify a hard drive as the destination, a window will pop 
up and ask you for an image name.  The only problem is that this image may 
not be directly usable with the emulators -- it will probably require extra 
processing before it becomes something useful.  I haven't gotten to 
experiment with this much yet, but I'm sure that in order to make an image, 
you'll need a 360K drive (not a 1.2, since the heads are too narrow).

Then there's also the problem of copying the back side of disks.  I'm not 
sure the solution's been found to that one yet.  Cutting new timing holes, 
using "naked" disks, or transplanting disks don't strike me as good 
solutions -- the only good, safe thing I can think of is using an Apple 
to copy a disk to a temp, and use the front side of the temp to make all 
the images.  Christopher Bachman had been experimenting with this, but I've 
lost his address and I haven't seen him post in quite a while.  Methinks I'
ll be scrounging through Deja News for more info. . . .

>You need ADT 
>or AP2222PC for this. Once I finish OCR'ing the manual, I will post it, 

Please give careful consideration to where you post it -- keep it in a 
binaries-only group, if there is one.  Otherwise, upload it to 
ftp.asimov.net and let us all know that it's there.  Please don't post large 
files and binaries to discussion groups!

>and hopefully this will alleviate all confusion and rumors about the 
>Copy II PC Option Board. - Tony :-)

IMHO, I never thought the OB manual was all that well-written anyway.  :-/

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