Re: hard drive questions

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Jim Conger wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:42:18 -0700, Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:
> >Jim Conger wrote:
> >The CFFAs are so much faster it'll feel like your computers are running
> >several times as fast
> 
> I've been pleased so far with the speed.  It is a bit spooky to boot
> my //e silently... I grew up with the sounds of a Disk ][.
> 
> I also plan to experiment with backing up the CFs with good old dd and
> compress (dd if=/dev/sda | compress)... should work as long as I
> restore to the same or larger CF.  I have some ProDOS and DOS 3.3 file
> system drivers for Linux, so I may have a quick way to transfer files
> to CD.  With OS X, you can probably do the same.

Possibly but MacOS has gradually gotten further away from the Apple II.
I was backing up Apple II disks to CD with 7.5 and writing ProDOS CDs.

> 
> >You can download a late version of the Sider manual from my website.
> >The Software's there too but it seem that PCs have difficulty with that
> >subdirectory. If so, let me know and I'll email them too you.
> >http://homepage.mac.com/waynes
> 
> I have a manual, but I could really use the software.  The manufacture
> date is "0586", so that must be 05/86.  I tried your site with my
> browsers (Mozilla .9-something and Netscape 4.77 on Linux) as well as
> from IE.  Something strange there if none of those work.  I'd very
> much appreciate you e-mailing the software!

Yes there is, since it seems to work flawlessly with Netscape and IE from
a Mac, only seems to be a problem on a PC as far as I know. Right now I 
debating getting a full time connection so I can run my own server.

The disk images are in the email:-)

	Wayne