Re: .NiB to disk

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Mark Percival" <mark@syndicomm.com> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber wrote:
:
: >I've had very few NIB images to test the theory on,
: >so I don't know for sure, but the ones I have tried
: >on it worked ok. Do you have any I can try it out
: >on?  I'd like to know if it can be done.
:
: You millage will vary depending on what is on the image.  One .nib image
: for sure won't work is the DOS 3.2 System Masters that I uploaded to Asimov
: eions ago.
:
: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/masters/dos32std.gz
: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/masters/dos32pls.gz
:
: Either of these won't convert to .dsk.  They need to be .nib in order for
: the 13 sector encoding to work.

I assumed so for DOS 3.2 disks. I have a switchable ROM
daughtercard for the Disk II card and I have it on an Apple
5.25 card so now I can use both 13 and 16 sector disks,
although I can't for the life of me figure out why.   :o)

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