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2003-03-05 by snmcur
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.
2003-03-07 by sad_pierrot
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.
2003-03-07 by stuart currie
That sounds great. Is it small enough to email? --- sad_pierrot <sad_pierrot@...> 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/
2003-03-07 by Nev
Just a quick note, these disk imaging programs won't work
on the P2K, it uses a different type of floppy controller
chip. CopyQM and other utils like Teledisk are
readily available on the web, just do a google search.
Cheers,
Nev.
-------Original Message-------
From: stuart currie <snmcur@...>
Sent: 03/07/03 12:39 PM
To: prophet2000@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [prophet2000] Re: formatting disks
>
> That sounds great. Is it small enough to email?
--- sad_pierrot <sad_pierrot@...> 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
2003-03-07 by sad_pierrot
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/
2003-03-07 by ac
This won't work. Prophet 2000/2002 disks are formatted differently at hardware level (apparently). sorry. ac
> -----Original Message----- > From: > sentto-3497352-210-1047079176-lists=ftg.co.uk@....y > ahoo.com > [mailto:sentto-3497352-210-1047079176-lists=ftg.co.uk@returns. > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > prophet2000-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >