[Coco] Drive Pak progress

[Roger Taylor]

Good news,

A set of Drive Pak boards arrived today and everything is looking good.

I just booted into NitrOS-9 on my 2GB MicroSD card and I'm at the 
prompt.  A little work needs to be done with the OS-9 drivers to 
allow it better access to partitions and disks 0-255 like how Disk 
BASIC does it, but most of the work is done.  I think a few tweaks to 
the OS-9 drivers will do the trick.  I'll leave that up to the OS-9 
community to improve on the drivers to access more using some base 
descriptors perhaps.  I can't see having 256 descriptors labeled U0 - 
U255 for accessing floppies in a partition.

My pak starts up running a sector reading loop test.  I hit BREAK, 
typed DRIVE #"OS9" to change the partition then typed DOS, and up 
came NitrOS-9 in a few seconds.
I could easily change my *.bas program to be: 10 DRIVE #"OS9":DOS  to 
boot into NitrOS-9 on powerup.

I really need to find a MicroSD card cloner (to local .img file then 
back to other cards).  I use Windows 7 now.  It is not ideal for me 
to load each customer's MicroSD card FROM the CoCo over the bitbanger 
cable or wireless connection due to how much longer it would take.

Does anybody know what Windows app can copy a MicroSD card 
bit-for-bit and clone it onto another card?  I mean a mirror image.

Thanks
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~ Roger Taylor