Re: Format ProDOS on PC?

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message news:456dd303$0$34486$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
: William Garber <willy46pa@garberstreet.com> wrote:
: > : If you open the floppy device directly, make sure you close the disk
: > : (File->Close, Ctrl-W, or just exit CiderPress) before physically
: > : ejecting it.
: >
: > I sent him to the add files to image, then write image
: > route because sometimes mine come out corrupt writing
: > files to the disk directly.  :o)
:
: Under Win2K/XP, this could happen if you eject the floppy before the OS disk
: cache has flushed.  Closing the disk in CiderPress will close the disk
: device and flush all of the data.
:
: I thought I was doing an explicit disk flush when operations completed,
: but I don't see it.


Nope, I tried it and you do have to use the
'Close' function. Just closing Ciderpress will
not complete the transfers.

William Garber
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