Re: DaynaFILE II question...

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Vartan wrote:
> 
> The DaynaFILE II drivers I have do not support the Apple PC 5.25 drive,
> however the special version of DOS Mounter included with it does. So, once I
> track it down I may be able to help you with that. However, a few things:
> 
> 1> Anything past System 7 will mount maybe 1 out of 5 disks and not give you
> wierd error messages, and allow you to see the files and copy them.
> 2> Don't attempt to write to the disk unless you have lots of time,
> patience, and blank disks.
> 3> Non-DOS filesystems make DOS Mounter flip out with that particular drive
> (I tried the ProDOS trick too)
> 4> The card was indeed only compatible with either the SE (PDS) or the Mac
> II series (NuBUS) and this only included those that could take fullsize
> nubus cards without adaptors, ie not the IIsi, AFAIK.
> 5> Slightly nonstandard disks make the computer crash hardcore, whether it's
> system 6 or 7, though the most spectacular occur under 7 (of course). This
> means disks with copyprotection, disks with unusual formats, disks that use
> any sort of driver level compression. Sierra games come to mind, at least
> the early bootable ones.
> 6> Yes, don't even think about OS 8 or beyond...I mean it.
> 7> Putting a crappy, old version of DOS Mounter on your system in
> combination with PC Exchange or File Exchange (not Apple File Exchange) is
> bad news.


Doesn't look too good for the drive but then other than trying the software
there isn't much I can do with the drive other than making unusual
ProDOS 
disks.

> Your best option for the ProDOS on a mac dilemma is a LC with the IIe card
> and a 5.25 drive, sadly you'll never see the disk on the desktop....but at
> least you can image them or copy files directly to a disk which *is* mounted
> in the finder (a ProDOS HD partition) from within the IIe environment. This
> works beautifully for working with terrible multidisk things like GEOS which
> normally doesn't cope well being manipulated outside of GEOS


That way works but In my case I have 3.5" drives on all my apple IIs so 
generally I just use sneakernet though my IIGS and IIe are part of a network.

	Wayne