Re: APPLI-CARD

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

Jose Carlos Lord Apple wrote:

>bill malcolm <wm65805@alltel.net> wrote in message
>news:<3D6ADCB3.A0A1F1A3@alltel.net>...
>> HI:  Could be a Catch 22 thing.
>> 1. My testing I formatted disk as CP/M  then archived and tried to restore,
>> it worked ok.
>> 2. I thinks that a ProDos format should work. There is a difference in the
>> sector ordering between Dos 3.3 , Prodos , Cp/m . It should work though
>> only slower.
>> 3. At any rate you must format the the disc's
>> 
>> *** I will try what you tried and see ***
>> 
>Humm ... I did this:
>
>1- Formatted disks with CP/M and used ShrinkIt to unpack the .SDK
>files (Appli-Card boot disks)
>2- Put the card in Slot 7 (and slot 4 after)
>3- Boot with the disks. But didn�t work !!! When I boot with those
>disks, the apple //e still booting !!! But, if I boot with any other
>CP/M disk, using other CP/M card, and I send a "dir" command, the
>files stored on the AppliCard boot disks, are listed !!! That�s means
>that the AppliCard boot disks are ok !!
>
>Does someone already works with this card ? It�s doing me crazy !!!!
>Is that a way to test it, like PR#7 or other way ?

As I replied earlier, the disks that ShrinkIt writes to can be formatted
using _any_ Apple II OS that can format 16-sector 5.25" disks.  Interleave
is only a possible performance nicety, and there is no such thing as a
"sector order" problem with low-level formatting.  Each physical sector
is read independently, and RWTS searches for it wherever it is rotationally.

The symptom you describe is consistent with the AppliCard not working
in the system you have it in.  Sounds like the disk(s) are fine.
-michael

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