[Coco] Coco disks

[Richard E Crislip]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:30:04 -0600
Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 2, 2015, at 10:22 PM, Richard E Crislip
> > <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > So if I understand correctly, you booted OS-9 from the DOSSDC, then
> > saved your disk to the SD? I would like mine to be saved there too
> > for sure, but I do not want all my disks in one basket, I also want
> > to save to PC storage via DW. Are you doing that? TIA
> 
> I take the SD card out and back it up on my Mac :) I haven’t gotten
> Drivewire set up yet, but it’s on the TO DO list.
> 
> When I did it manually from BASIC, I I would do this:
> 
> DRIVE 0,OFF — make 0 be a real floppy
> 
> DRIVE 1,”GAMES1.DSK”,NEW — make new disk image
> BACKUP 0 TO 1
> (switch disks)
> DRIVE 1,”GAMES2.DSK”,NEW
> BACKUP 0 TO 1
> 
> …except instead of using backup, I used a BASIC program to copy
> sectors. I was having disks with bad sectors that would abort BACKUP,
> so I wrote a program to copy as many tracks as I could.
> 
> For OS-9, the CoCoSDC command is not working currently, so I had no
> way to create and switch disks from OS-9. So, I wrote a simple
> BASIC09 program that would create .DSK files on the OS-9 side, so it
> was kind of like doing this:
> 
> OS9: mybackup /d0 os9games1.dsk
> (switch disk)
> OS9: mybackup /d0 os9games1.dsk
> 
> Then, I used the Toolshed utilities to pull those .dsk files off the
> CoCoSDC .dsk image. A dsk within a dsk!
> 
> If I had it to do all over again, I would do everything from OS-9,
> including the RS-DOS disks. That was my original plan years ago when
> I was going to write something like this for Drivewire.
> 
> I’m working on it.
> 
> 		— A
> 
> 

Thank you for your answers. Currently I have very little free time, so
I just lurk, read, ask questions, and HOPEFULLY learn so that, when time
does free up, I can do this as efficiently as possible.

Richard