[Coco] Drivewire/Superdriver feature request, and questions

[David Gettle]

I would like to use the equipment I have
 wich is a USB Zip100 and a SCSI Zip100

Arron, thanks for he suggestion, but win32diskimage only works with data
cards, and not USB devices.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Benoit Bleau <benbleau at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about using a IDE Zip100 drive?  you could use a IDE hard disk at the
> same time.
> Zip100 drives are available for about 5 to 10$ on ebay...
>
> Benoit.
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you're using Linux or some *nix like OS, you should be able to
> "insert"
> > the device node in drivewire and talk directly to SCSI devices assuming
> the
> > logical sectors are just linear data like a floppy disk or hard drive is.
> > You could also copy the sectors off a device into an image file with a
> tool
> > like dd on linux or win32diskimage on windows and then insert that image
> > into a DriveWire drive.  You might need to mess with os9 device
> descriptors
> > to make os9 believe the "disk" is at least as big as the image has
> sectors,
> > but that should be all.  I haven't done this with zip drives, but have
> with
> > CF cards and hard drives.
> >  On May 4, 2015 6:11 PM, "David Gettle" <david17361 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Here's my request...
> > >
> > > Be able to attach and access both SCSI and IDE drives and use them with
> > > Superdriver to transfer files from SCSI media to IDE media.
> > >
> > > and/or
> > >
> > > Be able to assign a windows removable drive to drivewire for use by the
> > > CoCo or an emmulator running NitrOS9 and be able to read native
> > > OS-9/Nitros9 disk formats
> > >
> > > The reason for this is I have all of my OS9 (level1 and two software,
> > that
> > > I purchased, as well as programs I wrote in C and Basic09 on a OS-9
> > > formatted IOMEGA Zip 100 disk, and on a large quantity of 3.5 inch
> disks.
> > > (about 25 meg worth of software and data) that I want to transfer to
> the
> > > 128mb CF cards I have plugged into my IDE card. But I really don't want
> > to
> > > spend several weeks swapping floppies and having to re-sort all that
> > stuff
> > > out again, it's sorted on the Zip disk. I would like to be able to boot
> > the
> > > machine with the drives attached and just dsave from the SCSI Zip disk
> > to a
> > > CF card, and let the CoCo do the work.
> > >
> > > OR
> > >
> > > can someone tell me how to get a CoCo3 to boot drivewire and SCSI
> Zip100
> > > from floppy only and create enough virtual disks to transfer all this
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > I have about a dozen Zip100 disks that I can use.
> > >
> > > I did his when I first got the SCSI card and need to re-do it because
> the
> > > SCSI drive I was using as H0 crashed, Mark no longer has the
> > configuration
> > > files for the SCSI system I had and doesn't have the time to re-create
> it
> > > (Honestly I wouldn't expect him too.)
> > >
> > > I have 3 128MB CF cards, I intend to leave the one I got with the
> system
> > > unaltered in the event I mess something up, use one as a working drive,
> > and
> > > the third as a backup drive for the work drive. I intend to boot the
> CoCo
> > > from Floppy then access the solid state drives (possibly using the
> Zip100
> > > as a secondary backup drive) now that a newer NITROS9 distro is on the
> > site
> > > than what I have on the CF I received with the IDE card.
> > >
> > > I typically use a mix of Nitros9, level2 and my own command
> replacements
> > I
> > > have a program I wrote in C I call MKTREECOPY that does a recursive
> file
> > > count for each level of a directory tree, creates an alphabetically
> > sorted
> > > copy of the tree with the directory entries at the beginning of each
> > > directory file and 10% more directory entries than the number of
> entries
> > in
> > > the directory tree being duplicated on all levels. During this process
> it
> > > creates a file that has the names and file counts for all
> sub-directories
> > > in the tree. Then it uses the data file to create the new empty
> directory
> > > structure.  Once the new directory structure is created it deletes the
> > data
> > > file, then calls dsave to copy the files from the source directory to
> the
> > > destination directory.
> > >
> > > Once I have my system up and running again I may do a re-write of this
> to
> > > eliminate the DSAVE call.
> > >
> > > Having more than two hard drives on a system is great for developing
> > tools
> > > that do disk operations, and is the main reason I would like to be able
> > to
> > > use both IDE and SCSI without a reboot. Using floppy drives for
> > developing
> > > disk utilities takes too much time.
> > >
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