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Re: Mac Floppies / Prodos
In article <1158682633.847261.289650@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"jsnospam@cimmeri.com" <js@cimmeri.com> wrote:
> Greg Buchner wrote:
> > I'm not certain if a different drive would work. So we'll start at the
> > top. Which Mac do you have? Do you or will you have a hard drive
> > available for your GS?
>
> I'm testing with both a PowerMac 6500 and a beige desktop G3. They
> behave identically and both are running OS8.5.1.
I'd update to 8.6. It's free from Apple.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60283>
Don't know if it'll help, but it shouldn't hurt. I've never tried to
write an 800K ProDOS disk from one of my three PPC Macs (a 7500 & two
beige G3s). I've always done it from the Quadra 650 I have sitting
around. But, other people have gotten it to work with DiskDup+, so I
don't know why it wouldn't for you.
> What I'm trying to do is archive copies of my original GSOS diskettes
> so that I can recreate if a situation arises years from now where I
> lose its hard drive, AND then find that my original GSOS floppies are
> no longer readable. One redundant system is never enough for me.. ;-)
> The DiskCopy 4.2 images are nice for this situation because the Mac
> can do the generating.
I really think your best bet would be to have another hard drive or
something similar to use on your GS. I have the GS/OS System disks on a
Syquest 44MB cart sitting around, all set up with 800K partitions for
the install disks and figure I'd use that if I need to reinstall.
Otherwise, when I was using my GS more, I'd back it up regularly to a
Syquest EZ-135 cart on my Mac and I had a couple of copies of a disk
that booted directly into the backup program (Salvation Bakkup) with the
disk also being apple to access localtalk so I could get to the backup.
But I could also have hooked up the EZ-135 to the GS if I wanted to.
Best option would seem to be having multiple copies of the GS/OS system
disks. I think I have a couple of copies lying around.
Greg B.
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