Need help with Disk Copy 6.3.3 !!!

Hello everybody,
I'm a Mac user but no software expert, so perhaps my problem seems to be trivial, but I really need help with it:

We have a contract with an external provider to publish Mac (classic)/Windows hybrid CDs for us. So I have to send Master-CDs (several/year) which includes specifying a checksum created with "Disk Copy 6.3.3". On my Macmini (MacOS X 10.4.2) the good old "Disk Copy" can't determine the checksum (error -19) and other applications I tried (i.e hdiutil,...) did show different checksums as "Disk Copy" on a Mac classic computer.
Can anyone tell me how to get the same checksum created by "Disk Copy" on a classic system on a Mac OS X-System ?

Macmini Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Macmini Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on May 21, 2007 12:04 AM

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May 21, 2007 10:48 AM in response to Grandpa54

Hi, Grandpa, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if your service provider still can't handle discs created in OS X nearly seven years after its introduction and nearly six years after Apple ended all work on OS 9, I hope you have another provider in mind for when your present one goes belly-up. It won't be long.

It's way past time for the provider and you to sit down and figure out together how to meet your needs using OS X alone, on both parties' ends. Relying on any application that you have to run in Classic mode for any process that involves controlling hardware (e.g. a CD burner) is a mistake; the app doesn't have access to the hardware in Classic. New Macs made in the last year and a half can't even run Classic applications, and a steadily dwindling percentage of Mac users are familiar with any Mac OS version prior to OS X.

I suspect you will end up buying the latest version of Toast, which runs in OS X and offers every imaginable CD burning option, and using that to create your master discs. Whatever adjustments the service provider needs to make, if any, to handle the revised workflow, insist that they be made: it will be good for the provider as well as for you. If the provider won't go along, find another now instead of waiting for him to fold first.

May 21, 2007 11:50 PM in response to eww

Thanx eww,

I don't want to blame our provider with my posting, because using OS 9 environment is more triggered by us. Not to leave a mark to be old fashioned I'll want you to know that we have to support large medical diagnostic systems running on OS 9 and the classic box. For the small rest of their life (we certainly developed successor systems) we will not convert the old systems to OS X. But we have to support them until the last installation is closed.

I think I'll have to burn the CDs on my Macmini using OS X but I'll need an OS 9 Mac for controling the desktop for our installations and for generating the checksum.

If you are interested in our systems look for BCS and BNII on
http://www.dadebehring.com

Thanx again

Macmini Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Macmini Mac OS X (10.4.9)

May 27, 2007 5:08 PM in response to Grandpa54

hey, eww; Hi Granpa,

If you hadn't posted that addendum, I would have completely agreed with eww but since you did look, Dade Behring bills itself as the world's largest company solely dedicated to clinical diagnostics… with 2006 revenue of more than $1.7 billion, yes?

Personally, I think properly supporting any system, and particularly a medical one that might risk people's lives, means supporting it natively rather than with a lashed-up emulation which as you've seen, won't work the same way.

In your shoes I'd go somewhere like e-Bay - or any good dealer - and spend little more than pocket change on a used older Mac that will do the job properly.

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