Re: ADTPro can't open port

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <1183405967.082045.49240@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
 schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 3:11 pm, Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
> > It was chugging along. I've hit another bump. Reading DOS 3.3 disks -
> > this should work for them, right?
> Right.
> 
> > - apparently takes so long that the
> > server times out (and doesn't recover) when the client has only about
> > half-filled its buffer. 3.5" disks and 5.25" ProDOS disks come along
> > nicely.
> 
> That would likely happen if there were read errors on the physical
> media.  (Which would happen for sure on lots of copy protected
> disks.)  The recovery from timeout isn't nearly graceful as it needs
> to be, that's for sure.  But I think you'd likely end up with an
> unusable disk anyway.  What is it you're trying to move, exactly?

The ones I tried were just old data disks of mine. Not copy protected 
and they seem to read fine when I start up from them.

I was getting Xs in the progress bar from ADT, but I wasn't sure if that 
was a quirk of dealing with DOS disks or indicative of real issues. I 
leaned toward quirk because I got the Xs consistently on disks that were 
readable in general.

Actually, the reason I'm going through this process is that I think I've 
been lucky at how long these've held out, and I'd like to stop tempting 
fate and time. I've got somewhere between 150 and 200 5.25" sides to 
move (which are almost all DOS 3.3). I'm wondering if I might be better 
off getting one of the CFFA cards, finding a way to make the images 
locally and then just bringing the CF card over to a Mac with ProDOS 
support.