[Coco] running RSDOS games from hard drive?

[Robert Gault]

Robert Emery wrote:
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> HDB-DOS can only access one drive, Master or Slave, right?
> Could a utility be written that would 
> 1) detect both drives HDB-DOS partitions
> 2) swap between (CHS/LBA or Master/Slave) driver overlay
>    (assuming one is CHS, the other LBA)
> 3) copy a disk/range of disks/all disks between Master<->Slave 
> 
 ><snip>

HDB-DOS can access more than one hard drive if Boisy has not removed 
this ability; RGBDOS can but only one hard drive at a time. The answer 
to your problem is simple but won't make the backing up of one hard 
drive to another easy. The answer is use a large RAM disk.

You can have a RAM disk that exists for low drive numbers, ex. 2 & 3, 
and use it to swap data between real floppies, RAM, and multiple hard 
drives. On my system, I have an 80Meg and an 11Meg hard drive and switch 
between the two via software without rebooting. The drives don't even 
have the same offset for Disk Basic. While I could backup via a floppy 
from one hard drive to the other, I can also do it via the RAM disk.