26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
6:13 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I was running DSK2FILE under System 6. I've tried writting a DOS 3.3 disk,
as well as those two Wizardry/Tekumel disks I posted the link to.
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 ;)
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.
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It does indeed appear that DSK2FILE requires the disk
image to be
preformated. Even more irritating I can't seem to get the //gs to
read any of the disks I write with DSK2FILE :^(
Under what OS? Are you getting hard errors (disk recalibration) or soft
errors? I've gotten zero errors, though when I try to boot
the disks, it comlains it
can't.
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)?
Don't you
hate that? Stuff that should be simple gets dragged out into an
unproductive timesink needlessly. Ditch DSK2FILE and use ADT instead.
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".