Re: ADT - at a loss...

["Craig Bower" <to.email.me@post.a.request.message>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message 
news:um8ud.10568$_3.122048@typhoon.sonic.net...
> What do you mean by "meat" but not DOS?  Do you mean the disk looks okay
> but won't boot?

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the reply.  Exactly what you said - the disk looks and is ok, 
but the
DOS won't boot properly.  Really weird track accessing sounds and no I/O 
error, just
a frozen boot screen with perhaps an inverse "B" near the bottom middle.

Here's an example.

- Boot Apple II into DOS 3.3
- Brun ADT
- Setup ADTWIN on the PC side
- Transfer standard issue DOS 3.3 dsk image to Apple from PC
- Quit both ADT (Apple II side) and ADTWIN
- Reboot 5.25" disk in Apple (power off - on OR ctrl-OA-Reset)
- It won't boot.

Then if I run Master Create on the newly transferred disk, it'll boot fine
and the actual programs are on the disk as they are on the PC side dsk
image.

I was using 5.25" drives, but I've switched to 5.25" Uni-Disk drives now
and it sort of works better, but not consistently.  It still fails 
occasionally.

Is it a drive speed issue perhaps? - trying to write tracks 00, 01, and 02 
is
just too much for it at (too hi or too lo) it's speed?

Does that make any sense?

Later,
Craig