Re: Apple IIgs booting/monitor problems

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Gabriel Androczky wrote:

>"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> az al�bbiakat �rta:

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>> Most Power Macs have manual inject floppy drives which usually won't
>> make a bootable ProDOS disk. The auto-inject drives on most of the pre
>> PPC Macs worked better for this.
>
>I have a Mac SE... should I try making the floppies on that one?
>I can format 800k ProDOS disks on my 9500, why can't it make them bootable??

It appears that somewhere in the progression of PowerPC-based Macs,
the testing of ProDOS disk interchangeability fell off the list.  The problem
appears to be software, since with the correct disk copy program, even
non-auto-inject drives can write good ProDOS disks.

I surmise that programs that write whole tracks at once work correctly,
while programs that write sectors fail when writing to a ProDOS 800KB
disk.

>> I believe Bill Garber has helped a few people by mailing out System
>> disks for a small amount. Also Syndicomm sells them for a nominal fee.

Bill's web site also has the correct Mac disk copy program to do the
job, though I don't currently recall its name.
-michael

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