[Coco] Copying DriveWire disks to floppy, or other disks.

[Barry Nelson]

HDBack is available for anyone who might want it at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RnV5G0TZFZcWdmWjJPa0VFSFU/view?usp=sharing

> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:23:46 -0400
> From: "Barry Nelson" <Barry.Nelson at amobiledevice.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC2.0.1 and DriveWire
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> I wrote a program that can copy between the DECB disk slots of a HDBDOS drive, as well as copy to or from actual floppy disks called HDBack. It is written in BASIC and runs on a CoCo 3 with HDBDOS and 512k of ram. It also copies single sided 35 and 40 track floppies in a single pass. I will try to post a link to it this evening. I had previously emailed it to a couple of people on this list.
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>>       Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20VCC2.0.1%20and%20DriveWire&In-Reply-To=%3CCAA6uQZTDf25Cy4mN40yDTZ5zjktQoFDB583u_BPQVxDdXiLS5g%40mail.gmail.com%3E> 
> Mon Oct 19 09:49:29 EDT 2015 
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>>        Ah..  In this case then you definitely do not want "HDBDOS mode" enabled.
>>        HDBDOS Mode uses the LSN to direct requests to drive slots on the DW side.
>>        Handy for single floppy disk images, totally wrong for anything else :)
>>        Booting into NitrOS9 will automatically disable HDBDOS mode if it detects
>>        that it is on, but that may not be enough to ensure you're set correctly
>>        all the time.
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>>        You could access both the OS9 and the DECB disk portions of such a file
>>        using the offset as Robert mentioned.  If you need to copy between DECB
>>        disk slots inside the VHD that might be handy.
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>>        -Aaron