Apple IIe floppy backup DOS vs ProDOS

[AppaloosaMac]

I’m working on backing up my overgrown floppy collection and am not sure if I should be creating images in the .dsk (DOS) format or .po (ProDOS) format.

I created a RaSCSI boot drive for my Color Classic with a Mac boot partition and two ProDOS partitions. I then used my Floppy Emu to copy Prodos 2.4.2 to one of the ProDOS partitions (and selected that partition as the boot partition) and copied DSK2FILE to that partition as well.

DSK2FILE is pretty straight forward to use, but I’m unsure what best practice is. Apparently "DSK2FILE WILL CREATE IMAGES IN DOS ORDER (.DSK) OR IN PRODOS ORDER (.PO) IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT FORMAT THE DISK REALLY IS, YOU CAN USE EITHER ORDER” according to https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=24913, so no concern there.

I‘ve been making .po images, but decided I should ask around before getting too far into it (because disk copies are SLOW). Is there any advantage/disadvantage to going one way or the other?

 

[magnusfalkirk]

I don't think there is any advantage/disadvantage to one format over the other. As far as I know all the Apple II emulators, and Apple II cards such as the CFFA 3K or things like the FloppyEMU, can run both types.