[Coco] Some Coco Questions

[George Ramsower]

The other day I addressed this scenario and decided to backup my old 5.25 
game disks to 3.5 disks. Mostly because I have lot's of the 3.5s and the 3.5 
drive is drive 0.
I found some problems with that. Some game disks won't allow a backup. 
Others(OS9) seem to have a problem with altered bootfiles to account for 
double sided disks and converting them from the original FLIPPIES. The 
Sierra Online stuff comes with instructions on how to do this, even moving 
them to a hard drive.
 I thought that was really cool.

 I've managed to get most done, but there are a few that just simply won't 
work when attempting to backup to a 3.5.

Sometimes, I get an error from RS-DOS and the backup aborts. I'm sure that's 
probably a protection scheme on the RSDOS disk. However, it could be due to 
bit rot on the floppy I'm trying to backup. I have been able to just copy 
the programs to the 3.5 when this occures but, not always, even though the 
game works when loaded from teh original disk.

 For now, I'm still working the CNC stuff and haven't had much time to play 
with converting 5.25 disks to 3.5. I have had some success though.
 Converting the OS9 operating system to 3.5 disks is easy.

 I hope I don't sound stupid in this stuff, even though I'm not really very 
good at it but, I keep trying!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Derek
>> I have a couple of questions
>
>> 2nd Question: I have a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive hooked up to my real Coco 
>> III.
> > The 3.5" drive is set as drive 0 and the 5.25" is set as drive 1. What
> > I am having trouble with is using the DOS command on drive 1 to boot
> > OS-9 disks.
> > I used the "Drive1" command to make the 5.25" drive my default, then
> > type DOS and it reads the 5.25" drive for a moment, then switches to
>> reading the  3.5" Drive 0 and then goes back to the OK prompt.
> > Is there a way to boot OS-9 disks off a drive designated as Drive1?
>>
>> Thanks all!
>>
I have the same problem and the problem is in the way the  OS works. /d0 or 
drive 0 is the default. This is why I am trying to copy all my stuff to 3.5 
disks which is my drive 0.

 Otherwise, I will have to put a switch in the drive select lines to make 
the drive 1 be a drive 0. Ugh.

George