Re: Weird problem: SCSI flash drive works but won't boot

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On Jun 16, 3:00 am, Stephen <stephenh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 15, 1:06 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > The usual answer is that the formatting program should have installed
> > it (but some may not).
>
> > The brute force answer is that a block copy program can copy it from
> > any bootable disk.  (It can also be used to read the block to see if
> > the boot code is actually there.)
>
> Thanks Michael and AppleCPM...
>
> So I guess the question is, what block copier/editor would work in
> this case?  I haven't been able to find a single ProDOS 8 application
> that can see this volume, including Copy II Plus.  If I can't see the
> volume I assume I can't read its block structure?
>
> Is there perhaps a GS/OS app out there that can do this?

Is there no utility to read at the lowest level?
I can read SCSI drives on my TI-99 using a low-level sector reader
before even formatting it in "TI" format, meaning I can actually see
what is there before.
Like I had a PC-formatted drive that I could read the 512-byte
sectors. And I could "peek" at the contents of CD ROMS this way as
well. There *has* to be something out there.