Mike,
Thanks. If that's the case, let me try making a couple more disks using
different disk images that I can find online and see if I have any better
luck. If not, I'll try the drive speed adjustment. If you don't mind
sending me a pointer for that, it sounds like it would be a good thing to
have regardless of whether I need to use it this time or not
Thanks,
Win
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Hi Win,
It sound like the floppy you created from the image is good -- usually
you get the immediate "Retry" message if the III can't recognize the
disk at all. As long as you used the CFFA to create the disk from the
image, just as you would an Apple II disk, it should work.
From what I've experienced, what you're seeing
is usually (but not
always) one of two things:
1) The disk image you used to create the image has a driver installed
for a piece of hardware that isn't present in your system (i.e, a
ProFile drive) and SOS has loaded the driver and is waiting for the
peripheral to respond. SOS is supposed to be smart enough to realize
that hardware isn't there and move on with the loading process, but it
doesn't always work that way.
or 2) your drive needs to be adjusted. I have about two dozen Disk
III drives and every single one of them required a speed adjustment
before they would work when I acquired them. LMK if you need the
procedures for that.
- Mike