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Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?
Jon wrote:
I initially tried to run the Apple game server on my IIGS with no
drives, but it was designed to work with a SSC. After some coding and
not finding enough info on the IIGS serial firmware, I gave up and
stuck a SSC into my IIGS, (which still has no drives, but works with
apple II game server. I'm trying to acquire some 5.25 and 3.5
drives. And I've asked around my office for people to bring me their
old disks so I can use them.
You'll probably find quite a few DD 3.5" disks--and maybe even
some SD or DD 5.25" disks.
The Game Server would be a fine way to bootstrap DOS or ProDOS
onto real disks, though there are other methods.
Anyway, I tried plugging an old mac 3.5 external drive in the IIGS.
It seems to work but I don't have any low density disks to try, and
taping the hole of a HD disk doesn't work. (I wrote some images using
an old mac+disk copy, it wrote, but booting on the IIGS brings up
"unable to load prodos" on any disk I try.) I know *something* got
written to the disk, because the boot sector seems to read (it's where
the error comes from, i believe.) but nothing else.
That's what should happen if PRODOS.SYSTEM is not on the disk.
You are correct that HD disks cannot be used reliably in DD drives.
The write currents are sufficiently different that the result is
unreliable.
-michael
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