Re: ADTPro can't open port

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <1183409200.858000.320250@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
 schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 4:37 pm, Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> An 'X' means there was an I/O error reading a block (two sectors in
> DOS 3.3).  If you get a row of Xs, then it'll definitely take too long
> to get back to the server, which will time out.  You can send the ADT
> 1.32 disk (part of the ADTPro distro) back and forth to test... it's
> in DOS 3.3 format.
> 
> Any chance your disks have a 40-track DOS or something else extra
> special on them?

Nope. Bog-standard 35-track, 16-sector disks. I tried half a dozen. I 
could start up from all of them and read random chunks of data off them, 
and they all gave me solid lines of X from ADTPro.

> One final thought - if you have hundreds of 3.3 disks, you'll save
> some time using the DOS ADT 1.32 client on the Apple II.  It's
> generally faster than ProDOS (and is compatible with the ADTPro server
> on your OSX machine).

I'll give that a try this evening. Thanks very much for the pointers.