Re: Write 3.5" disk image in Windows

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1190596073.998061.120590@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Polymorph  <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 24, 9:02 am, bnfmsgeek <bnfmsg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, so here's my situation. I have a PC running XP and an external
>> 3.5" drive, and a IIgs with an Applied Engineering 3.5 drive (the ones
>> that can read and write to high density disks. How can I write Apple
>> II disk images to my floppy disk on my pc? Is that even possible.
>> Using ADTPro takes about 15min/file and it would take forever to
>> transfer and write System 6 w/ so many floppys.
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> bn
> 
> Woah! If you are talking about transferring 800Kb disk images (or even
> 1.4Mb) it should *not* be taking 15 mins per image. Something with
> your setup must be wrong. I can transfer 800Kb images in under 2 mins
> IIRC... it might even be faster I can't remember *exact* figures right
> now.

At 9600 bps it takes that long to transfer 800 Kbytes.  Few serial ports
from back then supported greater bit speeds much larger than 9600 bps.
 
> What setup are you using for ADTPro? Double check your hardware is
> setup and configured correctly.
> 
> cheers,
> -p
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