[Coco] CoCo SDC question

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:13:33 -0400, CoCoList for Color Computer  
Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> I didn't use the SDC much until now, i'm not used to its commands. If you
> tell me exact what commands do you do to create and mount the disk imageI
> cant try later at home. I have FD502, FD500 but they are double drives. 3
> 1/2 and 5 1/4.


Create and mount new disk:

DRIVE X,"TEST.DSK",NEW

that will create a formatted .dsk image and mount it, replace the X with  
the drive number of your choice.

For my test, I used: DRIVE 1, "TEST.DSK",NEW
Which mounts the new image to drive 1.

I issued the SDC command to turn off virtual disk support for drive 0:

DRIVE 0, OFF

Which also assigns DRIVE 0 to your floppy hardware.


Then I tried backing up from real floppy - drive 0 to the image on the SDC  
- drive 1

BACKUP 0 To 1



Think that about covers it...



>
> other important stuff: is your coco3 in turbo mode ?

Only if SDC-DOS puts it there. I didn't.


-- 
Brian Blake
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