Re: Which drive/controller/firmware to read old disks ?

[e p chandler <epc8@juno.com>]

On Sep 15, 4:05 am, Zero dB <n...@email.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> This will be a cinch for most of you, but I am not that well-versed on
> the apple ii hardware since I was a child when i was introduced, and
> mostly played games (as I continue to do now)
>
> However.  A friend of mine sent me some disks that may have some very
> old, very valuable art projects that I want to access, but the disks
> don't seem to want to read in my duo-disk.
>
> He sent me a bunch of "scotch 744" diskettes, which i think are ss/sd,
> and some apple master dos 3.2 disks in a plastic sleeve.
>
> I'm assuming that I can't read these older disks with my duo disk due
> to both the controller firmware AND the drives being limited to 140K
> per disk.  I believe I need an older disk ii and controller with old
> firmware so that can read 113.75KB disks.
>
> Does this sound right ? 40 of 40 disks failed to be read. I tried to
> catalog in cii+ and get an io error. I forget the eror but can
> retrieve if needed.
>
> It's fairly important that I read these disks and be able to copy them
> to a slot 6 dos3.3 formatted disk.
>
> Am I on the mark with the old disk @ 113.75KB and the hardware needs
> to access it?
>
> THANKS!
> Jayson
>
> jayson.anderson AT REMOVETHIS gmail

As long as you can boot a DOS 3.3 system master and run its MUFFIN
program, you can transfer files from a 3.2 disk to a 3.3 disk. Muffin
does allow a single drive to copy files, just lots of disk swaps.

-- Elliot