[Coco] CoCo3 questions / Cloud 9 Super IDE interface

[Willard Goosey]

>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:00:23 -0600
>From: Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net>

>	I do.

Lucky.  I'm so broke right now, it's not even funny, but maybe after
new years I'll be able to spring for CoCo parts, and a CF adaptor is
at the top of my list.

>	It's as simple as 'dd if=/dev/sda of=flashimage.dsk' to copy my CF to 
>flashimage.dsk.

What about a CF organized as HDB-DOS "floppy partitions"?  I
understand the power(*) of dd(1) -- it would need to know the length of
the file to extract (easy) and the offset into the media to start
saving at -- calculatable if you know how HDB-DOS set things up.  So I
guess my real question is, is that technical info included with
HDB-DOS?

(*)Some of it anyway, dd is one of those powerful commands that can do
just about anything, if you ask it the right way.

>	'setfdparm coco40ds' lets me access coco formatted floppies (DECB of 
>os9) as /dev/fd0.
>
I am running ancient kernel that doesn't understand 0-based sector
numbering on floppies. :-(

Willard
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