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RE: [prophet2000] Re: formatting disks

2003-03-07 by ac

This won't work.
Prophet 2000/2002 disks are formatted differently at hardware level
(apparently).


sorry.

ac

> -----Original Message-----
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> groups.yahoo.com] On Behalf Of sad_pierrot
> Sent: 07 March 2003 23:20
> To: prophet2000@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [prophet2000] Re: formatting disks
> 
> 
> 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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