[Coco] 5-1/4″ DS DD 80 track drive, 300 RPM mod

[Kandur]

Amazing, so much work was put into DW4 and VCC 1.43beta !
Followed your instructions and everything worked fine.
Now I can and will explore many possibilities, but don't
want to be distracted from my main goal, restoring my hd backup set.
Here is my setup:

128k Coco-3 with HDB-DOS rom selected in a J&M FD controller,
3.5" drive '0' and 5.25" drive '1' real floppy drives connected,
nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw running on the Coco,
HD backup floppy loaded in /d1, dir shows file ok.

DW4 server running on the PC, configured for emulator,
server drive 0 loaded with nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw.

VCC 1.43beta running on the PC, configured for RGB-DOS,
Becker intf. enabled, IP address 127.0.0.1  TCP port 65504
See these screenhsots:
http://qdv.pw/coco/blog/2014/07/ 
Specific questions, 
How can I copy the backup file from /d1 on the Coco to the PC  ?
What is the best format for these backup file copies to be 
on the PC, for the HDKIT program to restore?

Kandur

Thursday, July 3, 2014, 7:39:33 PM, you wrote:
> Kandur wrote:
>> Found the Vcc 1.42 Emulator's manual,
>> was able to run programs from .dsk images and
>> from the real floppy drive, A as well.
>> Loaded the Preinstalled Hard disk image Nitros9 Ver 3.2.8
>> into HD drive 0, but can't find the instructions how to start it.


> The hard drive on the VCC site is split, one
> part for OS-9 the other Disk Basic. 
> The .vhd image is compatible with that used
> with MESS and the JVC emulators. The 
> first part of the drive $5A000 bytes is OS-9.
> The second part of the .vhd image 
> is 256 35-track Disk Basic virtual drives.

> You need to configure VCC using its menu.
> Cartridge\FD-502 permits selection of 
> DOS and that should be RGB DOS. You will want
> to check Persistent Disk Images, 
> probably Clock at 0xFF50-51, and OverClock Disk
> Drive. If you have fdrawcmd.sys 
> install on the PC, you can have VCC talk to
> real floppies rather than virtual ones.
> Cartridge\MPI Config should show FD-502 in
> slot4 Hard Drive+ Cloud9 RTC in slot3 
> with the slot select set to 4.
> Cartridge\HD Drive 0 is where you select the
> .vhd image which should be the one 
> from the VCC site for starters.

> The RGBDOS ROM is essentially identical to
> HDBDOS and HDBDOS is derived from 
> RGBDOS. By default at turn on, You will be in
> Disk Basic mode and reading the 
> virtual drive0 on the .vhd image.
> The .vhd image does not come with an
> AUTOEXEC.BAS file on drive0 but it should. 
> That program will automatically run and
> typically should be a menu program that 
> permits selection of other programs.
> Enter   DIR250TO255   to see what is on these
> drives. I believe drive254 
> contains RGBDOS tools and drive255 is a
> NitrOS-9 boot drive. If that is what you 
> see, DOS255  will start NitrOS-9 running. You should then see
> NitrOS-9/6309 Level 2 V3.2.8
> and
> Built 05/01/2010 for VCC 1.41

> If all you intend is to use NitrOS-9, you could
> place a one line AUTOEXEC.BAS 
> file on drive0.
> 10 DOS255
> NitrOS-9 will boot as soon as you start VCC.

> I'd suggest you look for the VCC 1.43beta
> version as that will work with Drivewire4.

> Robert