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

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On 14 Nov 2006 cph1776@gmail.com wrote:

> 
> 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!

That sounds like the images are in DOS order but the disks are in ProDOS
order, or vice versa. 
-s

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