Re: Copying Mac MFS disks on an Apple II

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"ground.ecn AppleII Librarian" <apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu> wrote in
message news:biin1b$cbl$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu...
> In article <3d7aa99a.0308252008.4d3aaa65@posting.google.com>,
> Willi Kusche <willi@wilserv.com> wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >    Any suggestions as to how to do that?  Copying on a IIgs puts some
> >of the blocks on the second side of the output disk.  I'm wondering if
> >a program that copies 8 blocks (a track) then writes 8 blocks of nulls
> >and repeats that sequence will cause all 800 blocks of the input disk
> >to wind up one side of the output disk.
> >
> Possibly the ProDOS system utilities may work if it doesn't insist on
> reformatting the disk.  Use davex or something similar to format the disk
> as single-sided. (eg, init .51 -1 ).  Then use a disk copy pgm to copy
> blocks.  This may not work because the MFS disk may have data that
> doesn't fit in the 512 byte blocks.  There were a copy of utils to extract
> files from HFS disks (HFSlink was one, the other name escapes me at the
> moment), but I do not know if they work on MFS disks also.  Get an old mac
> running system 4 or 5 (?) and trying converting the disk to HFS.  I have
> some old Mac 400K external drives if that helps.

I was going to say that I just snagged one of those drives on eBay,
but it isn't here yet. I was hoping to see if I can write 400k disks on
my IIgs. Do you need to have special disks for this?, or will it write
an 800k disk to 400k?

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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