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Comment: error -17 while attempting writing diskette images

update: Error number is 137 (not -17) using DC 6.1.3 under System 7.0.1. Message for DC 6.1.3 under 7.0,1 reads: "The Make Floppy operation did not complete. (137) The disk image "Install1.image" needs a drive that can create 800K GCR format disks.". As stated earlier, mfs800k and hfs800k blanks failed.

2009-12-07 18:47:29 UTC in Mini vMac
error -17 while attempting writing diskette images

I am using minivmac 3.1.2-lx86, running it from an xterm in PCLinuxOS 2009.1. I have tried writing 3rd party diskette images (that were intended for 800k diskettes in the real world), I have tried writing 800k versions of System 7.0 diskette images that I downloaded from Apple; I have tried writing those images using Diskcopy 4.2 under both System 6.0.8 and 7.0.1, all images fail to write...

2009-12-07 04:24:35 UTC in Mini vMac

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