Oh yeah, I forgot you were trying to create the images
on the Mac. If you
can get the complete disk image onto your //gs without trouble then let me
know and I'll send you a quick & dirty program to write the image to disk
on the //gs (but you'll need to make sure the disk is preformatted ;)
That's the part that's easy and works flawlessly (though a bit time
consuming). I write the images to a 1.44MB Mac formated floppy using
a USB floppy drive connected to my G5, copy the data to the HD of my
PowerBook 540c (this is easier than setting up to go via ethernet).
With the PowerBook I copy it to a 800MB ProDOS floppy (it's old
enough, and running System 7.5.3, so this is a built in capability).
At that point I read the 3.5" floppy on my //gs and copy to its HD.
Sounds like it's not being written properly? Can
you look at the disk
with a sector editor and see if there is at least any data on track 0,
sector 0 (the boot sector)?
I got "Copy II plus" V9.1 on the Apple, so I can format the floppies,
and I can see where DSK2FILE has written stuff out there.
Yes, I do hate
it. Will ADT run under System 6? I'd thought you
had to run
a server on the Apple, and use a client on the PC
to connect to it via
serial line and send the data over the serial line. It's been
years since I
used it, so I might be totally off on how it
works. One thing I should
probably also take a look at is "Asimov 2.0".
Yes, sorry, I forgot you were running on a Mac. Still, if you have a PC
handy and can get a null modem cable, ADT works pretty well.
ADT is available for the Mac, and I used it years ago on my SE/30.
Having said that, putting my hands on the necessary cable for a Mac
would be even more difficult than for a PC.
I might just get everything back out (I put it all away this morning)
later on tonight and try some more. I really am kind of fixated on
this at the moment.
Zane
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