[Coco] Drive speed incompatibilities

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Tue Nov 11 00:26:20 EST 2003


At 11:21 PM 11/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > If you can still read your old disks on the old drive, do a single 
> drive copy
> > with the added job of swapping not only the disk but the drive as well. 
> That
> > should get you started.
>
>Thanks, but what exactly do you mean? Should I type BACKUP 0 TO 0 and then
>halfway quickly switch drives around? Doesn't really work I think... unless I
>misunderstood what you mean.
>
>Of course, I could load and save every file individually while switching
>drives, but that is quite a hassle and some of these disks are OS-9 booted
>disks. As I don't use OS-9 the only thing I can do is to make direct 
>backups...
>
>Cheers,
>Fedor


I have a graveyard of dead floppy controllers that didn't like it too well 
when I messed with the ribbon cables while the power was on. :)






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