Re: Mac Floppies / Prodos

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Greg Buchner wrote:
> 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.

<...>

> 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.

Glad you mentioned the obvious best and cheapest insurance!  ;-)

Media failures are uncorrelated (unless your drive is eating them), so
two copies is *great* insurance.

-michael

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