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Re: Newbie's Compucard by Rolodex problem
panpanpanpan@gmail.com wrote:
(BTW, nice handle--your urgency is clear!)
I'm really scratching my head over this Michael. "Maybe Compucard is
complaining about the "master" disk being write protected". Then I
tried Compucard master disk without its write protection tab, but same
result. CopyII Plus will format the target disk in Drive 2 but when I
attempt to copy the master disk to that disk it reports it write
protected!
In that case, my "brilliant guess" was completely wrong. ;-)
I was thinking that Compucard was doing the copy, and making sure that
it didn't do it more than a pre-specified number of times. Clearly
that is not the case.
The whole process as described in the manual is based opon this scheme
for making date matched master and data disks. The master disk boots
striaght into an Apple Utilities screen for copying the master disk and
matching dada disk, with the second stage being the deletion of the
Apple Utlities file once from the copy once the process is complete.
Should I just delete the Apple Utlities file from the master and copy
using Copy II Plus? What do you think?
I don't think that will work, if you can't currently copy the master
disk to drive 2 using Copy II Plus.
This brings us back to the apparent fact that the second drive always
appears to be write protected, to any program attempting to write to it.
Since you have switched drives in the drive 2 position and the behavior
persists, the situation is very peculiar. ;-) Perhaps there is a fault
on the disk controller card. It is even (remotely) conceivable that a
fault in drive 1 could cause drive 2 to appear write protected...have
you tried switching both drives?
Can you write to drive 1? If so, you could use Copy II Plus to make a
copy of the master in drive 2 to a blank disk in drive 1. (Of course,
you'll still want to get drive 2 working properly.)
Have I described the situation incorrectly, or made any bad assumptions?
-michael
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