[Coco] Backup of HDB-DOS drives

Boisy Pitre boisy at tee-boy.com
Sat Jan 21 16:31:58 EST 2012


Steve,

I honestly don't remember this program.  I thought you wrote something like this.

On Jan 21, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Steve Ostrom wrote:
> 
> Jim, Boisy's SCSI to SCSI backup does a sector by sector backup in BASIC. Basically you set the parameters to SCSI 0, Drive 0, Track 0, sector 1, Load that sector into memory, set the parameters to SCSI 1, save.  Increase sector number and repeat.  Keep looping until you have copied the entire SCSI drive.  My assembly program does almost the exact same thing except that it doesn't need line interpreation for each loop.  Boisy's program is much more flexible in that it allows different sized backups.  Mine is set for 256 drives only.  Both backup programs should handle OS9 or BASIC programs just fine.
> 
> That said, my Coco set up is at our family cabin (Minnesota - 0 deg F !!). I plan a trip there within the next week or so, and I'll try to bring a copy home for you.  Please send me your address and I'll mail you a copy on 5 1/4" diskette.  I may need to bring the Coco setup home in order to make the copy because of the cold.
> 
> Boisy, are you still distributing your BASIC SCSI-to-SCSI backup program?
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> -- Steve --
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