[Coco] CoCoSDC Questions...

[Steve Batson]

Thanks Darren.


On Jul 15, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> I figured that would be the answer to question 1.
>> 
>> Darren? (you around and can you answer number 2?
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <
>> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know if there is info on the CoCoSDC on the following?
>>>> 
>>>> 1) Can the disk image files (.DSK) be accessed from the PC without
>> loading up an emulator or transfer program to retrieve or store in the
>> image?
>>> 
>>> As far as I know, you’ll need to use a CoCo .dsk utility.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 2) Can the CoCo move files between the disk images and the file system
>> on the SD card?
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> No. The SDC firmware has no knowledge of the file systems used by the CoCo
> (RSDOS and RBF).  In LBA mode it simply accepts requests to transfer
> fixed-size blocks of 256 bytes between the CoCo and a file on the SD card.
> 
> - Darren
> 
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