Can I create standard 3.5″ IIgs diskettes on a Mac?
You are most likely to succeed with an older Mac. However, even older Macs that have built in compatible 800k (DD) drives will often produce a IIGS diskette that is not quite right– such as a diskette that should boot gives the “Unable to Load ProDOS” error message. If you have an older Mac that should write standard IIgs disks properly and it does not, clean your Mac drive and keep trying. For instance, you may need to extract a diskcopy archive a few times for the disk to write properly. Newer Macs are, generally, less likely to succeed. Some Macs, such as iMacs with a floppy drive option, cannot format IIgs-compatible 800k diskettes. —————————- From: Simon Williams There was a thread discussing the impossibility of creating bootable ProDOS disks from a Mac with a ‘force-feed’ floppy drive. Seems it ain’t necessarily so. Using Bernie ][ the Rescue on a G3 iMac with a cheap USB floppy, I first create a Diskcopy 4.2 800KB image, which I copy to a 1.44 MB diskette wit
