Re: Made an imaged disk, but can't do much with it (was: Re: Using ,dsk images on a real Apple II -- help

[bieling@terra.es]

cph1776@gmail.com ha escrito:

> Greg Buchner wrote:
> > So first off, what version of Mac OS are you using?
> >
>
> 8.6 .....
>
> Well, anyway, I was able to convert a .2mg image from one of the
> emulators into a Diskcopy 4.2 image, and use that to create a disk
> readable on the Apple II GS. So that took care of the filetype
> problem...
>
> But a new problem has come up: although I can display the disk's
> directory, these imaged disks are full of I/O errors, and I can't
> read/run any files! (A quick verify with Copy II Plus
> showed almost every other block with some sort of an error....)
>
> I tried writing the image to two different disks, so that rules out
> problems with any particular piece of media. Could it be that the disk
> drives need re-aligning or something?
>
> Once again, thanks in advance!

Did you use the same drive in both the Mac and the IIGS ?
If not, you should try that first... Make the image on the Mac, then
move the Mac's internal drive to the IIGS external drive's case and see
what does the IIGS say then. There's somewhere, online, an article
about cleaning these 3.5" drives, though I don't remember where, at
this time.

Also, try to avoid using HD (1.4Mb) disks as if they were DD (800 kb)
ones, as this is also a potential source of problems.

Regards,
Jorge Chamorro B.