[Coco] DECB and BACKUP

[Ron]

Hi Robert,

I set up my Coco 3 again just to try out your idea.  Barry had a 
program, he mentioned, that can perform a backup like this as well.

Thanks!

-Ron


On 8/30/2015 9:10 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Ron wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I have RGBDOS and HDBDOS, including the one with Drivewire support. 
>> It looks
>> like I may need to go the DW option.  I've been trying to do this 
>> with a gray
>> cased Coco 1 "F" board version with 64K, a gray edition MPI, an 
>> original RS Disk
>> Basic Cart in Slot 4 and the CoCoSDC in Slot 3, selector switch on 3.
>>
>> DRIVE 0, OFF
>> DRIVE 1,"DISK0001.DSK",NEW
>> BACKUP 0 to 1
>>
>> Rinse and repeat, changing the filename between disks.
>>
>> If I do this with Drivewire, HGBDOS and a Coco 3, is there a way to 
>> premount
>> multiple floppies (in drivewire) so I can just use a BASIC program, 
>> increment
>> the drive number and swap floppies?  Is 4 the limit in Drivewire?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Ron
>>
>>
>
> Drivewire4 can have up to 256 floppy disk images mounted at the same 
> time. I'm not sure if that will help or not. I'm assuming that you 
> have the equivalent of a hard drive mounted on the CoCoSDC and want to 
> backup sequentially DW drives 0-255 to equivalent drives on the CoCoSDC.
>
> That type of backup might be possible as long as there is not a 
> conflict of drive numbers between Drivewire and the CoCoSDC.
> So if drive1 gives access to the CoCoSDC and you use drives 2-255 on 
> Drivewire then maybe:
>
> FOR DR=2 TO 255
> DRIVE 1,"DISK"+STR$(DR-1)+".DSK",NEW
> BACKUP DR TO 1
> NEXT
>
> Robert
>
>