Re: A strange disk transfer problem

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

Yes, the images in question run ok on my emulator.  They're mostly images I
created myself, so unfortunately nobody else has access to them.  I'm going
out of town for the weekend and need to get prepared or I'd put one up on a
website.
Jayson.

"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Jayson Smith writes
> >
> > Hi there,
> > I've got a very strange problem.  I can use ADT to transfer disks both
ways
> > just fine.  But sometimes on certain target disks, when I receive a disk
> > image to be put on a real disk, everything appears to go OK, the catalog
is
> > right (this is DOS 3.3) but the disk won't boot.  I have no idea what it
> > says on the screen because I'm blind.  Also, some Applesoft programs
have
> > syntax errors in weird places where there are no real errors.  On some
> > disks it works fine though.
> > Also I can use the nonworking disks for other purposes just fine.
> > Reinitializing the disks doesn't help.  Bulk erasing then initializing
> > the disks doesn't help.  It's like sometimes disks just go
> > bad for certain things, which doesn't sound right at all.  Any advice?
> ....
>
> Do the images boot and run okay on your emulator?
>
> What are names of one or two files which do not transfer correctly? What
> archive are they from?
>
>
> Rubywand