[Coco] SuperIDE, compact flash, and Linux

[Jorge Renato Machin Ibarra]

----------------------------------------
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> From: rlcarr at rlcarr.com
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:06:07 -0400
> Subject: [Coco] SuperIDE, compact flash, and Linux
> 
> If any of you use Cloud-9's SuperIDE controller with
> a CF card, and also have a Linux box, I'm curious
> about some potential backup/restore/transfer operations.
> 
> 1) Will doing stuff like:
>      dd if=/dev/whatever of=cocoflash.bak
>   for a whole card backup, and
>      dd if=cocoflash.bak of=/dev/whatever
>   for a whole card restore work?

Yes it works.

> 
> 2) Is the size of a HDB-DOS virtual floppy (as it is
>   laid out on the CF card) always the same size, no
>   matter how much or how little is on the floppy?
>   If so (assume for now that size is 158K), can
>   you backup/extract drive 10 (i.e. 11th floppy) with
>      dd bs=158K if=/dev/whatever of=floppy10.dsk skip=10
>   and can you restore/"mount" floppy #10 with
>      dd bs=158K if=floppy10.dsk of=/dev/whatever seek=10
> 

It works If you use the same disk format/geometry

> 3) If you can do (2), can you do something like that to
>    transfer a .dsk you downloaded (or created via an
>    emulator or when using Rainbow IDE) onto the CF card?
>    Or do those DSK files have "extra" stuff in that that's
>    used by the emulators and cannot be used "as-is" by
>    a real CoCo?  I've also notices that some DSK files I've
>    seen online aren't the full 158K.

Yes

> 
> 4) I'm also curious to know how/if you can do this stuff
>    from a Windows system.
> 

Yes with windd

> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Rich Carreiro                            rlcarr at rlcarr.com
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

_________________________________________________________________
Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy!
http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us