[Coco] bug in latest "backup" command?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Chuck Youse wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 23:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>   As far as it going past $59F, that seems more like a
>> descriptor problem and I'd check the settings with a dmode /d0 query.
>
>I'm pretty sure the descriptor is right (I actually had just formatted
>the target disk, $005A0 sectors verified) .. but I thought it would get
>this information from LSN0 on the source disk, anyway?

It should for some things, comparing the options there with the descriptor to 
see if they are identical.  You may want to dump the first sector and compare 
that to the rbf specs in the os9 books.

>Oh, and I vaguely recall something about the -s option, too, but maybe
>that was for copy or something - backup was smart enough to ask me to
>swap disks without me telling it to do so..
>
>I'll be in the lab tomorrow afternoon, maybe I can provide more
>information, or, alternatively, put my dunce cap on.
>
>Thanks Gene
>C.
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