Re: Pascal 400kb Disk

[Jerome Vernet <vernet.jerome@wanadoo.fr>]

Thanks to all responses ! But... We didn't succeed in reading these
discs..... More information:
Originally, the Iie was have an "eicon research" DDC2 double density
controller", that seems to work. The drive was a Sony 400k Drive, very first
model, see here: www.macgeek.org/museum/sony400kdrive/
<http://www.macgeek.org/museum/sony400kdrive/>. This drive seems to be dead.
To use this drive/card, we need to launch a SONY.CODE exe under Pascal.
Pascal saw then the drive as #11.

 So we try with an Apple Iigs (one Apple 3.5 drive). None of waht we try
right now is working. Pascal.fst only accept 800k discs, copy II plus ask
also for a 800 k disc.

Last chance:
- ADFS (thanks to David M. Potter, I send him an 800k Pascal Image disk).
- Chameleon ???
- trying to boot the Iigs with a 5.25 drive under Pascal 1.3

Stay tuned !


Regards.


J. VERNET




Le 7/03/03 17:27, dans b4ah9m$g0r$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net, ��J. Vernet��
<jeromevernet@NOSPAMhotmail.com> a �crit�:

> 
> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> a �crit dans le message de news:
> R72dnTzSifVmXvWjXTWcoA@comcast.com...
>> I believe what everyone is missing here is this. These are 400K disks.
>> They are probably only written on one side. The Apple 3.5 drives
>> will only do double sided disks. 800k, am I wrong here? You need the
>> older Mac drive, the 400K single sided drive that was used on the
>> Mac 512's. Is this correct? I'm not altogether certain of what I'm saying
>> but if I'm right then it may be impossible to copy those disks without
>> one of these drives, which are sometimes on eBay, although I've only
>> seen 2 in like 8 months. Maybe someone like AllTech has one lying
>> around. Just a thought.
> 
> It may be the ... bad point ! I think that the GS think that the disk is
> double sided, but it's *not*. I never see under GS/OS or any thing else a
> 'single sided' option...
> 
> More over, we try with a M0130 Apple Drive -that is, basically, a external
> single sided 400k drive from a 128k-, but the IIgs does not recognize it.
> 
> Yep. Hard ! ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards.
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