[Coco] Featured backup utility?

Todd Wallace dragonbytes at cox.net
Wed Jan 12 14:11:29 EST 2011


I just tried the XFILER utility.  But it has the same problem as the DECB BACKUP command.  It fails on IO error.

- Todd Wallace

On Jan 11, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Luis Fernández wrote:

> 
> View thismy friend Diego
> http://yaccs.info/PROGRAMAS/XFILER/xfiler.html
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>> From: luis46coco at hotmail.com
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:04:38 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Featured backup utility?
>> 
>> 
>> Hey
>> You save set DECByou save programing in DECB
>> 
>> I have a utility that uses dski or dsko pokes and see more about sectors
>> without falling
>> We can make a backup
>> 
>> must have more profits and better than this
>> 
>> I use cocodisk
>> to go to pc with a 5 1 / 4 in PC
>> and I marked the areas with Byte EB
>> 
>> cocodskutil my utility uses and mark the files as faulty but pc
>> 
>> if there's nothing I'll help you set one in basic is easy
>>> From: dragonbytes at cox.net
>>> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:55:59 -0500
>>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>> Subject: [Coco] Featured backup utility?
>>> 
>>> Hey guys,
>>> 
>>> I have recently started to backup my old 5.25in floppies from when I was a kid.  Many are old with bad sectors.  Drivewire makes it easy to backup from floppy disk to disk image on my computer.  I have been using the DECB BACKUP command, however, as you know, as soon as it encounters a bad sector, it aborts with ?IO ERROR.  So I thought I'd ask, can someone recommend a more advanced backup utlity that is capable of skipping/ignoring bad sectors or, even better, work a little harder to get that bad sector?  Most of my old disks are DECB format, however an OS9 utility would be fine too, as long as it can read/write both OS9 and DECB disks.  The other concern is, whether or not the utility talks to the floppy controller directly, in which case it wouldnt work with Drivewire.  Any advice is appreciated.
>>> 
>>> - Todd Wallace 
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