http://www.inetix.fr/sites_heberg/prophet3000/ the link on the bottom of that page is the copyqm program. it's fairly straight forward once you get it running, but just ask if you have any problems figuring it out. i'm not sure why it wouldn't work, if you're simply making a perfect duplicate of a factory sequential disk (which you could then just delete the samples from and use like a formatted blank, as i've done with the p3k before), the p2k shouldn't really be able to tell the difference. good luck. --- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, stuart currie <snmcur@y...> wrote: > That sounds great. Is it small enough to email? > > --- sad_pierrot <sad_pierrot@y...> wrote: > > i dont have a p2k, nor am i really familiar with > > double sided disks, > > but if you can use them in a standard pc floppy > > drive, you could use > > a program like copyqm to rip an image file of your > > working formatted > > disks, and then apply that image to the new disks, > > which would then > > be perfect 'formatted' copies of the source disk you > > used. i can > > send you the program (an old dos program) if you'd > > like to give it a > > try. it's worked for me with my p3k when certain > > disks didn't want > > to format properly. > > > > > > --- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, "snmcur" > > <snmcur@y...> wrote: > > > My p2k is running o.s. 3 and has the double sided > > drive - late > > serial > > > number. Bought some blank dsdd disks from route > > 66 studios, and I > > > get the "IF" error when trying to format. The > > manual suggests that > > > any blank will do, then recommends buying disks > > from a Mac store. > > > Has anyone experienced this problem, not being > > able to format a > > disk > > > because of "improper format"? > > > p.s. loads disks from wine country without issue. > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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Re: formatting disks
2003-03-07 by sad_pierrot
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