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Post #6 by david__schmidt
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 2 Feb 2015 - 03:41
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/can-kegs-read-actual-floppy-disks.1166/
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I was referring to the External 3.5", the External 800k, and the Apple 5.25" Drive.  The External 3.5" drive is compatible with both the IIgs and my Mac SE.  So if KEGS ran on my SE (which I don't think it does), this returns us to the actual thread-question... can KEGS read actual drives?
Unfortunately, KEGS (nor any other GS emulator) runs on an SE.  So it remains true, KEGS cannot read from actual (Apple GCR) drives.

The only other thing I can think of is attempting to image the disk on SAMDisk since - and this was my original question, it doesn't appear that any Mac emulators/programs can read or image the disk.  I'm not actually convinced SAMDisk can do it and I keep pushing Mac because I suspect GCR issues - though I know nothing about Apple IIs.
I don't know what a SAMDisk is.  But if a Mac SE can't read it with DiskCopy 4.2 or DiskDuper - the original floppy is probably bad.

If I am able to figure out a solution, I will lose a tremendous amount of faith in this forum - at least as concerns Apple II.
If you find a solution, you should share it and make the rest of us wiser...

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