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Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382834] Fri, 05 April 2019 12:57 Go to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: Leon Sargent

The CF card does boot into vol 1 as received.

The games in the games folder for ][e often come up with file type mismatch errors.

Using CiderPress in Wine or in Virtual PC using XP Mode and the CF card does not show up. I do get the message from OS X that it does not know the os.. I just hit ignore. So it is getting recognized.

I have the utilities on Floppy — just noting.

I have asked my nephew for one of his Win PCs to see if it is a hardware issue due to emulation.

I have the manual printed out and have follow the back up steps to make a bootable floppy but unable to back up partitions or the whole CF card with the recommended software in the Micro drive turbo Wiki.


Any help appreciated.

Leon
Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382839 is a reply to message #382834] Sun, 07 April 2019 10:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: Leon Sargent

Having no Win pc in the house, I tried CiderPress via Wine and Windows XP in VirtualBox on my Mac. No go.

Having the correct cabling for ADTPro I created all the System 6.0.4 disks and now have a booting Micro Drive Turbo.

Now I am going to try and figure out VDrives via ADTPRo.

It appears I can also back up the GS/OS partition via ADTPRo as well.

Seems I found the correct tool for the job for my use case.

NOTE. It would appear the CF reader is the failure point when in any type of emulation using the Mac.

Leon.
Re: Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382842 is a reply to message #382839] Mon, 08 April 2019 06:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Alex Lee is currently offline  Alex Lee
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On 2019-04-07 14:36:54 +0000, Leon Sargent said:

> Having no Win pc in the house, I tried CiderPress via Wine and Windows
> XP in VirtualBox on my Mac. No go.
>
> Having the correct cabling for ADTPro I created all the System 6.0.4
> disks and now have a booting Micro Drive Turbo.
>
> Now I am going to try and figure out VDrives via ADTPRo.
>
> It appears I can also back up the GS/OS partition via ADTPRo as well.
>
> Seems I found the correct tool for the job for my use case.
>
> NOTE. It would appear the CF reader is the failure point when in any
> type of emulation using the Mac.
>
> Leon.

I use VMWare Fusion and I can use CiderPress to write to partitions on
a CF card. The WINE bottled version of CiderPress does not work however.

- Alex
Re: Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382843 is a reply to message #382839] Mon, 08 April 2019 10:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David Schmidt is currently offline  David Schmidt
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On 4/7/19 10:36 AM, Leon Sargent wrote:
> Having no Win pc in the house, I tried CiderPress via Wine and Windows XP in VirtualBox on my Mac. No go.
>
> Having the correct cabling for ADTPro I created all the System 6.0.4 disks and now have a booting Micro Drive Turbo.
>
> Now I am going to try and figure out VDrives via ADTPRo.
>
> It appears I can also back up the GS/OS partition via ADTPRo as well.
>
> Seems I found the correct tool for the job for my use case.

If you're going to be doing big transfers, one micro-optimization you
can do is set Blocks-at-Once (on the config screen) to 40.
http://adtpro.com/configserial.html#Blocks_at_Once

I have seen it crash during very long transfers, so do be aware that you
might be doing that transfer more than once. :-)
Re: Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382845 is a reply to message #382839] Tue, 09 April 2019 17:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michael J. Mahon is currently offline  Michael J. Mahon
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Leon Sargent <sargenle@icloud.com> wrote:
> Having no Win pc in the house, I tried CiderPress via Wine and Windows XP
> in VirtualBox on my Mac. No go.
>
> Having the correct cabling for ADTPro I created all the System 6.0.4
> disks and now have a booting Micro Drive Turbo.
>
> Now I am going to try and figure out VDrives via ADTPRo.
>
> It appears I can also back up the GS/OS partition via ADTPRo as well.
>
> Seems I found the correct tool for the job for my use case.
>
> NOTE. It would appear the CF reader is the failure point when in any
> type of emulation using the Mac.
>
> Leon.
>

Have you tried an external USB-connected CF reader/writer?

--
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://michaeljmahon.com
Re: Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382848 is a reply to message #382845] Tue, 09 April 2019 23:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: Leon Sargent

That is what I bought. It it CF, SD and Micro SD combination reader.

Leon
Re: Micro drive turbo back up issues. [message #382850 is a reply to message #382848] Wed, 10 April 2019 02:56 Go to previous message
Michael J. Mahon is currently offline  Michael J. Mahon
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Leon Sargent <sargenle@icloud.com> wrote:
> That is what I bought. It it CF, SD and Micro SD combination reader.
>
> Leon
>

Of course.

I should have realized that computers today don’t have CF slots! ;-)

--
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://michaeljmahon.com
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