Re: Write .nib files back to disk

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Mark Percival <markREMOVE@syndicomm.com> wrote:
> What you are trying to do, in theory, should work.  However in
> practice, it doesn't.  May years ago I spoke to Bob Colbert (aka
> Saltine) who wrote the program about this.  He believes the problem is
> a bug in SST that prevents it from properly creating the two dsk files
> from the original .nib when done from an emulator.  He had no
> resolution for this problem.

It looks like that much works though, since you can run it in and out of
SST repeatedly in an emulator and have it work.

Sounds like the problem is on the real Apple II side.  It'd be interesting
to look at the written tracks in a nibble editor to see if sectors are
being lost or self-sync bytes aren't getting written.  Or maybe the
6656-byte track length is getting propagated, and SST on the physical
hardware can't manage to stuff all 6656 bytes onto the disk.

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