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From: kff@kesmai.COM (Kelton Flinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amax problems, again. . .
Summary: A-Max transfer disks
Message-ID: <221@kesmai.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 05:30:42 GMT
References: <28133@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
Lines: 22

In article <28133@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) writes:
> I'll bring it up on my dad's Mack, hit "make transfer disk" to format
> the "MiniTD" into the 270K size. As per instructions I then copy the
> files I want over to the disk, then click on "Prepare transfer disk"
> (or some such thing. . .). This is supposed to move the files over to the
> tracks that the Amax can read. I get disk activity, then an
> "operation completed successfully" notice.
> 
> Now when I try to bring it up on amax, I'll get the icons and file info.
> When I click on the Icon, the program will start to load partway, but then
> I'll get a message saying "application in use of damaged".
> 
   If this is what I ran into, the problem is in the documentation,
and the prompts in the transfer software, not in the actual functioning
thereof. When it asks for the "First Transfer Disk", what it really
means is the MACINTOSH SOURCE DISK. After that you give it the two
mini transfer disks in sequence. It took me about an hour and a half to
work this out, by which time I was more than a little annoyed :) The
manual is inconsistent, in one place it mentions the Amiga will ask for
the source disk, yet in the actual section on doing the transfer it
tells you to insert the "transfer disk." Tres confusing...
    Kelton