Re: Disk transfers help please

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

In comp.sys.apple2 Simon <no.spam@no.spam> wrote:
> 1/ There are 2 sides on each disk, apparently they are separted (i.e. if
> I flip the disk in the drive, it will boot with another program. Does
> DISK2FDI make an image of both sides, or only side A ?

An Apple II FDI image file only holds one side.

> 2/ Most of the B-Sides seem to be unrecognized on the 5.25 PC drive -
> once I have inserted the disk, the drive never stops, and the transfer
> tells me all the sectors are bad. Am I doing something wrong ?

It's possible there's nothing there.  Generally speaking, if you don't
see a write-protect notch cut on both sides, there probably isn't anything
on the back.  (Some people altered their drives to have a physical write
protect switch, so the notch isn't a perfect indicator.)

Copy-protected disks may not appear to have any valid sectors (except
for the boot sector).  You may have some luck converting these to .NIB
instead of .DSK.

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