[Coco] Newbie questions

[Bill Pierce]

Sean,
The answer to that is no. Driveoff just shuts down virtual drives 0-3 (of 256 virtual drives) and allows access to 0-3 on real floppies. This allows you to copy to and from 0-3 (real) / 4-255 (virtual)
Drive on turn virtual 0-3 back on and turns of real 0-3


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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Margules <s_man501 at yahoo.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Newbie questions

Thank you all for the info. If I'm understanding correctly RGBDOS doesn't allow 
access to the disk drives because it is substituting a hard drive for them. If 
you want the disk drives you have to DRIVEOFF to shut down the hard drive. But 
if that's the case, how does one go about tranferring data to the VHD (since you 
can't read a disk from a drive and access the hard drive at the same time)? For 
instance if I wanted to take DK.dsk and transfer it to one of the 256 partitions 
of Nitros9.VHD What would I need to do?