[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Luis Antoniosi]

Aaron's Sidewalk does that. But unplugging and replugging the CF card
all the time could damage the connector. Lots of pins to bend.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/2012 5:28 PM, Luis Antoniosi wrote:
>>
>> >From the DISK BASIC, what is the benefit of accessing TC^3, DW,
>> superIDE and floppy at the same time ? To copy from one to another ?
>> What else could you do beside this ?
>>
>>
>
> Luis,
>
> To expand more on the response I sent from my phone - you have to get files
> to your SuperIDE or DrivePak, or whatever device somehow. For many it's been
> DriveWire; for others it's been CoCoNet.
>
> If you just won a rare game or utility from an eBay auction, chances are
> you'll want to either make an image of it or for backup or copy it to your
> SuperIDE. Copying to the SuperIDE is easy. I assume your WIRED program has
> made it easier to create an image on a PC by copying that disk image from
> the SuperIDE to the PC using WIRED & DriveWire - but extra steps are
> involved in the process. If the capability were in place for the OS to
> detect attached storage media from the start the whole process would be
> easier.
>
> Maybe I'm looking at all of this the wrong way. Is there a way to look at a
> SuperIDE storage device (CF card or hard drive) and manage the content of
> RS-DOS and NitrOS-9 partitions? I know Tim Franklin write CoCoPak to help
> manage the image stored on the DrivePak's SD card, which works really well
> for managing that device.
>
>
> Brian
>
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