[Coco] SuperIDE backup/restore

[Retro Canada]

yes i do :)

Sent from my TRS-80 Color 1 - model 26-3003B 

On 2013-07-28, at 5:32 PM, Ronivon Costa <ronivon.costa at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Sent from my TRS-80 Color 1 - model 26-3003B

Are you kidding me!!!


On 28 July 2013 22:19, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> format you new cf on windows and then using gparted on linux delete all partitions.
> 
> then make a dd copy on it as:
> 
> sudo dd if=image.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=245
> 
> 
> Sent from my TRS-80 Color 1 - model 26-3003B
> 
> On 2013-07-28, at 5:04 PM, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> My goal is to be able to backup and restore my SuperIDE CF Card.I could copy each HDB-DOS virtual drive to physical floppies (and then copy them to DSK image files).
> 
> I could use dsave and make copies of the contents of the various NitrOS-9 directories and sub directories to physical floppies (and then copy them to DSK image files).
> 
> But why do I need to do that?
> 
> I "should" be able to use (via WinXP) the 'dd' utility from Cygwin or the Win32DI application or WinHex (from X-Ways software) or Disk Imager (by Roadkil.net) to extract an image of the entire CF drive and then restore it.
> 
> In order to try to do this, I purchased several 256mg CF cards (which I have referenced in previous posts).
> 
> I successfully used the above listed utilities to extract an image from my Cloud9 distribution card.
> 
> I generated as MD5 hash for each image (after it was extracted from the CF card) and all hash codes were identical.
> 
> I tried several different CF card (that Mark was kind enough to test for me, as I have been struggling with this for several weeks).
> 
> The 'target' CF cards are all identical to the Cloud9 distribution CF card according to that is shown via the IDEPROBE utility contained on the Clloud9 distribution disk
> 
>  Logical cylinders: 980
> 
>  Logical heads: 16
> 
>  Logical sectors: 32
> 
>  Total sectors: 501760
> 
>  LBA: Is Supported
> 
>  PIO Timing: 2
> 
> The only differences are the Serial Number (obviously this should be different) and the # sectors per R/W multiple(Cloud9 distribution disk = 1, the other CF cards = 4).
> 
> So, I should be able to "extract" the image from the Cloud9 distribution CF card and "restore" it to any of the 'matching' CF cards.
> 
> The problem is that I can't. And let me explain further.
> 
>  I can extract the image (without any failures or errors)
> 
>  I can generate a MD5 has of the actual CF card and the extracted
>  image, and they match. That tells me that I do not have to do a
>  byte-by-byre comparison, as the image is an exact copy of the card.
> 
>  I can then restore the image to one of the other CF cards without
>  encountering an error or failure
> 
>  I can then generate a MD5 hash of the new CF cards and that hash
>  matches what has previously generated.
> 
>  But when I put the new CF card into the SuperIDE device and power on
>  the system (CoCo3), I see the Disk Basic banner, the HBD-DOS LBA
>  banner, and then the system either: starts showing 'sparklies';
>  starts showing random colors and letters; or just hangs.
> 
>  The LED on the SuperIDE remains a solid color (no blinking).
> 
> I have tried using only the SuperIDE cartridge (no MPI)
> 
> I have tried various MPI configurations/combinations.
> 
> Everything works correctly, when I am using the Cloud9 distribution card and doesn't work when using the new CF card
> 
> My CoCo system (as mentioned in previous posts) is:
> 
>  CoCo3 (6809)
> 
>  Cloud9 Triad memory upgrade
> 
>  Roy's VGA converted
> 
>  MPI with slot 4 (either Disto SCII FDCC with DW3 in Eprom OR TRS-80
>  26-3129 'long' FDCC); Slot 3 Orch-90; Slot 2 Modified SSC; Slot 1
>  SuperIDE.
> 
> Your help is appreciated
> 
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