Re: Mac Vintages and the ability to make ProDOS Disks...

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

On 22 Jan 2006, Warren Ernst wrote:

> All,
> 
> I seem to recall reading that at a certain point in the Macintosh's
> history, its ability to successfully read and write ProDOS 3.5" disks
> got clobbered.
> 
> Does anyone know when?

AFAIK OSX did away with ProDOS support... I believe OS9 can handle
physical ProDOS diskettes, but I don't have the hardware to test that
theory... at least it can mount disk images with no problem.

> Or more specifically, will the Quadra 650 I just found in my storage
> facility be able to make ProDOS disks OK? Or must I revert back to my
> IIfx (also in storage) for this task?

It should work just fine... I'd recommend getting a copy of DiskDup+, as
it seems to support ProDOS diskettes much better than Disk Copy.

> I know the IIfx has the "auto inject" floppy drive, while the Quadra
> 650 has the later "manual inject" floppy drive.

I've made bootable ProDOS disks on a manual inject drive many times...
again DiskDup+ is the key... if you do have probs you could always just
swap over the drives, which is pretty easily done on most macs.

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