Re: Disk transfers help please

[Simon <no.spam@no.spam>]

Thanks for the replies !
I have no serial port indeed, so, sadly, ADT won't help.

> But he has no serial port on the II so ADT won't help. However, he could
> try Apple Oasis which can transfer using a custom cable connecting PC
> parallel port to II joystick internal connector.

Oh, I didn't know about this. That would be great, I'll try and find how
it works.

> As for the double sided disk issue, the Apple II disk drives only
> support one side of the disk. Some people including some companies would
> use the back side but in practice, this could be risky to the data on
> the disk. These disks were often called 'flippy disks'.

Thanks a lot. Almost all the disks I have here are 'flippy'! The B-sides
run fine on the Apple II but the PC disk drive doesn't recognize them.
I have several disk copy utilities and tried to copy, on the Apple II,
the B-Sides back to the A-side of a blank disk, then transfer them.
Seems it works more or less, but the problem is that a disk copy on the
Apple with only 1 disk drive takes ages and lots of disk swapping - I
won't have time to copy 20 or 30 disks like this.

I'm going back to DISK2FDI docs, maybe I can tell this program to use
the 2nd head of the PC disk drive to make an image.

Simon