(bootable) ProDOS floppies from Power Mac

[Simon Williams <*email*@*luddite.ca*>]

Hello nay-sayers.

I recall some time past, there was a thread discussing the impossibility
of creating bootable ProDOS disks from a Mac with a 'force-feed' floppy
drive. Seems it ain't necessarily so. Anyway, for what it's worth,
here's what I've managed to pull-off:

Using Bernie ][ the Rescue on a G3 iMac with a cheap USB floppy, I first
create a Disc Copy 4.2 800KB image, which I copy to a 1.44 MB diskette 
with the finder.

Then I transfer the disk image to a PowerPC 6100/66 which has the non-
auto-inject disk drive (running System 7.5)... copy the image to the HD.
Format an 800KB ProDOS disk with the finder and then use DiskDup+ to
copy the image to the floppy...

So far it's worked perfectly. The one oddity is that GS-formatted disks
take a long time to write, whereas the ones formatted under MacOS seem
to write much quicker... 

Of course, having the 6100 set up on the kitchen table hasn't earned me
any points with the wife ;-)

-- 
Simon Williams
Luddite Enterprises
http://www.luddite.ca