[Coco] CF Hard Drives (was: 1000sx update

[Chris Hawks]

---Reply to mail from Roger Merchberger about [Coco] CF Hard Drives (was: 1000sx update

> Rumor has it that Gene Heskett may have mentioned these words:
>>On Thursday 20 April 2006 04:17, Willard Goosey wrote:
>> >>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:44:18 -0700
>> >>From: "Derryl L. Cummings" <d.cummings at comcast.net>
>> >>
>> >> I Googled this description of the ST-251 MC-1.
>> >
>> >Heh, OK.  It's a fast MFM drive, if that's not a complete
>> > contradiction in terms. ;-)
>>
>>Well, in terms of a coco's speed, its still supersonic. :)
> 
> Then the 256Meg Compact Flash I'm currently tinkering with on my CoCo 
> w/SuperIDE must be "Warp 9." ;-)
> 
> Still working on getting HDB-DOS & whatnot setup - Easter left me little 
> time to tinker. I'm thinking of heading over to 
> "Make-Sams-Kids-Richer*Mart" and see what a second 256Meg CF will cost. 
> Hopefully very cheap. Then once I get one chip set up, I want to see if 
> DD'ing the critter over to the other one will make a "flawless" backup. 
> Then I could backup my entire CoCo's drive system in a matter of minutes on 
> a Linux box.

    That's how I keep mine backed up!

dd if=/dev/sda of=/wine/flash4.dsk

    And you can use the toolshed utilites on it.

os9 copy rgb2svideo.gif /wine/flash4.dsk,rgb2svideo.gif

Simple to add or get files from the CF!!

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Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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