Drken
Experienced Member
I sat down today to start work on getting some of the 485 disks that Neil Shapiro (of CompuServe fame) donated to A2OL this week. I have two CF cards - one 128 MB, the other 256 MB, that have been having serious problems in getting them to function on the CFFA3K. I'm hoping someone can give me step-by-step guidance on how to format the CF cards so that I have ProDOS volumnes on them in which I can use "i'm fEDD up" to archive the disks to.
I have both CF cards formatted on my PC. I then insert one of them into the CFFA3K card, turn the Apple IIe ON and press M to get to the menu. At the Main Menu, I select "6. New Blank Disk Image" and on the next screen, I set New Disk Image Size to 128 MB and press RETURN. It then gives me the following message, "Insert CF or USB media, or Press ESC". Here's the first problem. I have the CF card already in the CFFA3K, so I simply press RETURN and nothing happens. The only thing that I can do is "or Press ESC". It doesn't tell me to insert the CF media AND press ESC, it insert the CF media OR press ESC. What am I supposed to do at this junction? The manual is of no help... at least I can not find anything in the manual, so if I am missing it, please give me the page number. The paragraph on Pg 12-13 just doesn't do anything for me. I know, I know, I am exceptionally dense.
After I press ESC, I am back at the Main Menu. I then selected "7 Other Settings" and the only thing there that is CF card-related is "2 Raw CF Card Settings". If I then select "3 Erase CF for Raw Use" and type "YES" at the next screen, and apparently it erases the MBR.
I then try the card in CiderPress, and when I try to Open the Volume, I get an error message, "Unable to identify filesystem on 'P:\'.
I then go to CiderPress File menu, select New Disk Image to get the Create Disk Image window. I select Filesystem ProDOS, New Disk Size 32 MB and put the ProDOS Volume Name as TRANSFER1 and then press OK. The New Disk Image window comes up and I am asked to enter where I would like to save the new file. I select the CF card (my PC's drive 'P'), type in the File name: TRANSFER1.PO and select Save as Type "ProDOS-ordered image (*.po)" and that is when all of a sudden, I get the names of previous attempts popping up at being on the CF card - NEWDISK, NEWDISK1 and TRANSFER1. If I then press Save a pop-up box comes up and says "TRANSFER1.PO already exists. Do you want to replace it?" I select YES and then CiderPress shows me the contents of I:\TRANSFER1.PO. I still can not Open Volume for the CF card.
I've been going around in circles today for the past 7 hours, and have gotten absolutely no where. All I want to do is to create one 32 MB volume on the darn CF card to capture the disk archives I'm trying to make using 'im fEDD up'.
If anyone can help me with a Directions for Idiots, I would be most grateful!
Ken
www.Apple2Online.com
I have both CF cards formatted on my PC. I then insert one of them into the CFFA3K card, turn the Apple IIe ON and press M to get to the menu. At the Main Menu, I select "6. New Blank Disk Image" and on the next screen, I set New Disk Image Size to 128 MB and press RETURN. It then gives me the following message, "Insert CF or USB media, or Press ESC". Here's the first problem. I have the CF card already in the CFFA3K, so I simply press RETURN and nothing happens. The only thing that I can do is "or Press ESC". It doesn't tell me to insert the CF media AND press ESC, it insert the CF media OR press ESC. What am I supposed to do at this junction? The manual is of no help... at least I can not find anything in the manual, so if I am missing it, please give me the page number. The paragraph on Pg 12-13 just doesn't do anything for me. I know, I know, I am exceptionally dense.
After I press ESC, I am back at the Main Menu. I then selected "7 Other Settings" and the only thing there that is CF card-related is "2 Raw CF Card Settings". If I then select "3 Erase CF for Raw Use" and type "YES" at the next screen, and apparently it erases the MBR.
I then try the card in CiderPress, and when I try to Open the Volume, I get an error message, "Unable to identify filesystem on 'P:\'.
I then go to CiderPress File menu, select New Disk Image to get the Create Disk Image window. I select Filesystem ProDOS, New Disk Size 32 MB and put the ProDOS Volume Name as TRANSFER1 and then press OK. The New Disk Image window comes up and I am asked to enter where I would like to save the new file. I select the CF card (my PC's drive 'P'), type in the File name: TRANSFER1.PO and select Save as Type "ProDOS-ordered image (*.po)" and that is when all of a sudden, I get the names of previous attempts popping up at being on the CF card - NEWDISK, NEWDISK1 and TRANSFER1. If I then press Save a pop-up box comes up and says "TRANSFER1.PO already exists. Do you want to replace it?" I select YES and then CiderPress shows me the contents of I:\TRANSFER1.PO. I still can not Open Volume for the CF card.
I've been going around in circles today for the past 7 hours, and have gotten absolutely no where. All I want to do is to create one 32 MB volume on the darn CF card to capture the disk archives I'm trying to make using 'im fEDD up'.
If anyone can help me with a Directions for Idiots, I would be most grateful!
Ken
www.Apple2Online.com