Re: Norton Ghost type program for IIgs?

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello.  Whenever I get my IIgs up and going, I want to copy one or all
> >partitions to a different hard disk drive.  If the first hard drive
> >physically fails, I can just get the system to boot from the second hard
> >disk drive.  I am not wanting to get into images.  I have several small
SCSI
> >drives, so cost is not an issue.
>
>     You misunderstood me. Once you have the partition backed up as a '2MG'
> image file, you can then use that file (with Asimov 2.0) to create a
perfect
> *duplicate* of the original partition on a new hardrive. Nothing is lost
or
> changed, not the partition map or even file order--it's the equivalent of
> using Norton Ghost.

I understand.  You are talking about making an image on a different hard
disk drive.  When the first hard disk drive goes out, I think it would be
harder to restore the image compared to just having a second hard drive.  I
want a second hard disk drive that is exactly like the first one (at least
until I save a change on the first one).  I have never used Norton Ghost to
make a hard drive image, just disk to disk and partition to partition
copies.



>     My 240 MB Quantum SCSI drive has been slowly dying, so I recently
> made a perfect byte for byte duplicate onto a 1.2 GB IBM drive, using
> Asimov to restore '2MG' image files I copied over to it (I made the same
> number of ProDOS partitions and one large HFS). Unfortunately the
> drive was physically too large to fit in my Pegasus internal enclosure
> so I did this mostly for nothing.

Why would you copy over an image, then expand it instead of just copying a
partition or drive??  I don't get your point.



> >I also have one of the 3.5 superdrive cards, but no superdrives right
now.
> >
> >My problem is that I want a full "clean install" of GS/OS 6.0.1 on my
hard
> >drive, but I do not have six, DS/DD, 3.5", ProDOS formatted disks with
the
> >six diffferent 6.0.1 disks.  All I have is a boot floppy for 6.0.1.  I
have
> >downloaded the image files from Apple.  I have a PC.  I also have several
> >older (IIcx - 7200) Mac's in a storage building.  I am going to try to
find
> >one that either has a working OS and the Disk Copy and PC Exchange parts
> >working properly, or try to do a clean install of Mac OS 7.6, which I
have
> >on CD.  Hopefully, I can set up the Mac Middle Man and get my IIgs up and
> >going.
>
>     Better yet, if that card is an "Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card"
(which
> allows full use of a SuperDrive) then you can do as I do. Download the
> images on your PC, move them to 1.44MB DOS formatted floppy disks,
> insert and read them directly from the IIgs side.

Yes, it is the "Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card".  My GS/OS boot floppy
has zero K free.  I don't see how I am supposed to use the Superdrive card
and a superdrive with no MS-DOS FST (as I have been told I would need).
Reading the disks will be great AFTER I get GS/OS up and going, but for
right now, I have zilch.



>     You already have a SuperDrive, they can be found inside one of those
> Macintosh IIcx's. Just pull the floppy drive from the Mac and swap it into
> an external Apple 3.5 Drive. It's all very trivial, you just need a
> screwdriver.

Hopefully, the drive is still in the IIcx.  A few of the Mac's are not 100%
complete.  I brought home a 7200/90, 7100/80, (2)7100/80AV and one '94 or
'95 model with no faceplate.  None of those had a button on the disk drive,
so they are the wrong kind.  Here are other candidates I think I have:
Quadra 800, Quadra 650, Quadra 900 and maybe a IIfx.  Also, maybe a IIsi
and/or a IIci.  It's been a while since I fooled with them.

Thanks,
Jason Whorton


>
> Mitchell Spector