[Coco] SDC copy

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Sat Jan 14 17:41:09 EST 2023


On 2023-01-14 16:27, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 14, 2023, at 3:09 PM, coco--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> With a SDC and a Floppy disk controller I think I have heard a real 
>> DECB
>> 35 track floppy can be copied to a .dsk file.
>> But what about a 720K OS9 Disk ?
> 
> You can boot a NitrOS9 install with the CoCoSDC drivers and copy as
> normal. I backed up all my 42 track DS drives and a handful of 720K
> 3.5”.
> 
> Technically, if you had a patched BASIC that let DSKI$ use 80 tracks
> you would be able to do this in BASIC. I started down that road with a
> Utility I was writing back then but ended up just copying via OS-9.
> 
> At the time I was making images ahead of time with a Utility Darren
> provided but I think there is ab OS-9 command for making disks and
> such these days.
> 
> Anyone confirm?

I guess you would do this using a Single Drive Copy and disk swapping ?



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