[Coco] Copy files from Coco-3's physical drives to DW4 virtual disks

[Kandur]

Yes Gene, I ejected the dw4 drive, then re mounted it,
probleme is solved. Thank you.

Kandur

Friday, August 8, 2014, 1:57:00 PM, you wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2014 15:48:15 Kandur did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> Thank you Gene.
>> The floppy had only one file, 'part10',
>> at the end of the copy I got a write error 245,
>> but 'dir -e' showed identical byte counts on both drives.
>> Looks, if the whole file was copied, too.
>> Wondering what caused the error?
>> See the last photo here:
>> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=222

>> Kandur

> You are, I suspect, copying /d1 to /x1, which changes the LSN0 data of 
> /x1.  The error 245 is "write error", I had in mind it was "disk changed", 
> the more usual problem in these scenes.  So the following advice may be 
> bogus.

> Most such copies should start at LSN1, copying the rest of the image, then 
> come back and do LSN0 all by itself.

> Then eject the dw4 drive, then re mount it, which will force rbf to reload 
> LSN0 so it has valid data.

>> Friday, August 8, 2014, 12:08:18 PM, you wrote:
>> > On Friday 08 August 2014 14:19:55 Kandur did opine
>> > 
>> > And Gene did reply:
>> >> How can I access drive 1 on DW4 from the Coco-3?
>> >> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=222
>> >> 
>> >> Kandur
>> > 
>> > dw4 files that look like a disk drive are behind the /x0, /x1, etc
>> > rbf file descriptors.
>> > 
>> > Cheers, Gene Heskett


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