[Coco] HDB-DOS wish list

[Robert Emery]

Ben,
while it would be an interesting idea to have multiple HDB partitions on a
single drive, even with IDE only allowing 2 drives, with 256 each that's 512
virtual floppies that are already readily accessible to Basic... 

Here's a quick & dirty program to copy Master 100 to Slave 5:
(takes about 40 sec on these *old* seagate drives)

100 CLEAR12000:DIMA$(18),B$(18)
110 MD=100:SD=5
120 FORT=0TO34
130 DRIVE#0:FORS=1TO18
135 DSKI$ MD,T,S,A$(S),B$(S)
140 NEXTS
150 DRIVE#1:FORS=1TO18
155 DSKO$ SD,T,S,A$(S),B$(S)
160 NEXTS,T:SOUND1,1

BTW, I will be adding this capability to Color FOG, now that I am aware of it.
I  am also working on making FOG faster overall and more versatile at the same
time. The plan is coming together.

Bob

> > 
> > 2.Modify backup to allow backups from one partition to another?
> > 	Backup 255#0  to 255#1    Backup from partition 0 disk 255
> > 					    Partition #1 disk 255.
> > 
> 
> If you start a RAM disk for drives 0-3, you can already run Backups from 
> "partition to partition" via the RAM disk.
> 


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