[Coco] Archiving a floppy disk collection

[Robert Gault]

Allen Huffman wrote:
> Hi folks. I am one step closer to hooking up my CoCo and beginning a huge project of archiving all my floppy disks. My plan originally was that I would do this using HDB-DOS/OS-9 to a memory card via SuperIDE, but I later started thinking I would go with Drivewire.
>
> My plan was to write a program that would let me insert two disks and hit a key, then it would transfer them track by track. 35-40 tracks for disk basic and whatever for OS-9 (I distinctly recall being able to get 42 tracks out of disks and used that too).
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> Does any program to do this already exist?
> -

Allen, could you be more specific about what you want to do? It reads to me that 
you want to put a disk into the Coco and a blank image into Drivewire. Then 
backup the Coco disk to the Drivewire mounted disk.
If that is correct, you don't need any programs, just Drivewire4. The exception 
would be for copyright protected disks.

Disk Basic disks
original in coco drive0
blank in DW4 slot 4 HDBDOS translation on
DRIVEOFF:BACKUP0TO4

OS-9 disks
Use a DW OS-9 disk which can talk to Drivewire and boot. Disk available from Aaron.
boot disk in coco drive0 - boot
if multiple drives original in drive1
if single drive, load backup and switch drives
blank in DW4 slot 0
backup /d0 /x0

It won't matter whether the OS-9 disks are single or double sided.