Re: A strange disk transfer problem

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

Actually I thought the same thing, so used the mapper program which comes
with A2, the emulator I use.  No joy.  In fact, by changing the order,
things get worse!  The disks not only won't boot but they won't even catalog
right!  So aparently that isn't it.  Thanks anyway though.
Jayson.

"Simon Williams" <bill_gates@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Jayson Smith
> <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> > Jayson.
>
> Seems I've encountered something similar with disk images on "2 in a
> Mac". Sometimes people forget to change the storage order to ProDos when
> making a disk image with Asimov (the default order is Dos 3.3). I found
> in these cases I was able to catalog the disks but not boot from them,
> and the phantom Syntax Errors rings a bell too... of course that doesn't
> really address the fact that your problem seems limited to particular
> disks, but it's all I have - hope it helps :)
>
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