[Coco] RGB/HDB-DOS drive swapping

Mark Marlette mmarlett at isd.net
Sun Sep 19 16:58:35 EDT 2004


At 9/19/2004 01:33 PM -0700, you wrote:

Steve Ostrom has made a HDB-DOS copy utility. He says that he has used it 
to backup 7 or 9 volumes of his 256 virtual disk using this program.

Steve????

Mark


> >
> > All you need to realize is that drive numbers 0-3 don't use the RGBDOS
> > HDBDOS special commands so only one type of special drive needs to be
> > assigned at a time. That means any operation that can be performed with
> > a floppy and special medium can be duplicated with RAM and the medium.
>
>Okay. In reading the manual... :-O  I see that DRIVE # command allows changing
>drives. It looks like I could even simulate a ramdisk with variables and use
>DSKI$/DSKO$ to copy any HD. Nifty.
>
>Thanks for the clue,
>Bob
>
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