[Coco] Backing up a HD to an SD

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 June 2015 18:23:29 Barry Nelson wrote:
> If the hard drive is OS9 formatted, you don't have to modify the dsave
> output, or change makdir, you can just run this: CHD /OD
> DSAVE -T /ND ! SHELL -P
>
> The makdir command may throw some errors if a directory already exist,
> but the process does not abort, try it. The dsave and copy commands on
> the current version of NitrOS9 also support a -r option to replace
> existing files.
>
> Please note, this works if the hard drive is OS9 formatted. Some of my
> message were discussing how to copy a Disk Extended
> BASIC/HDBDOS/RGBDOS formatted drive, which is much harder, short of
> manually copying each floppy section out to a floppy, of course, which
> could take a while depending on if you are using all 255 HDB/RGB DOS
> drive segments.
>
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 4:09 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
> >  That is exactly why I had to modify the "dsave" script. To work
> > around that. Once I get that "main" coco all fixed up and connected
> > to this W7 box. Then I can work on transferring that makdir command
> > which you made. Right now, I have to get that coco up and running
> > again. Quite a few steps to get to that end.
> >
> > George R

If familiar enough with Nitros9, and the superdisk drivers, its fairly 
trivial to write a routine to do that in assembly.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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