[Coco] Copying CoCo diskettes to PC

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Wed Oct 30 00:42:07 EDT 2013


Mathieu, are you any relation to Roger Bouchard of Montreal, a Coco
enthusiast who used to be active in the 80s or 90s on Delphi under the
username Harbie?

Art

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> Le 2013-10-29 à 21:35:00, Willard Goosey a écrit :
>
>
>> My 5.25" drive equipped linux box died a while back, but IIRC toolshed
>> could use the drive directly after setting it up with setfdparm.
>
>
> I thought toolshed only dealt with disk images, which is why I only tried
> dd, but I just tried toolshed directly and it gives basically the same
> problems as dd and cocoutil.exe :
>
>   toolshed dir /dev/fd0,
>   # gives a few I/O errors then a directory listing
>
>   toolshed copy /dev/fd0,maxsound.bas .
>   # gives a few I/O errors then says « error 215 ».
>
> So, I'll try another controller and/or serial cable, whenever I get any of
> these.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
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