[Coco] special ramdisk needed...

[Mark Marlette]

Bob,

If you are referring to HDB-DOS's VF then it would be ~10 seconds.

It will be about the same as a VF to VF copy. If the ramdisk is as fast
as HDB-DOS or SuperDriver.

Mark


Quoting Robert Emery <theother_bob at yahoo.com>:

> >
> > > Would it be possible to have a RamDisk that would supercede
> floppy
> > > drive 0, as opposed to any higher drive number?
> >
> > Indeed, this is a similar issue faced by RGB-DOS (HDB-DOS, from
> > Cloud-9).  Some software wouldn't let you enter a drive number
> beyond
> > 0-3, so RGB-DOS allowed you to swap out the floppies so HD virtual
> > floppys became 0, 1, 2 and 3.  A RAM disk could do the same thing,
> but
> > so much software talked to the WD1773 controller directly,
> bypassing
> > Disk Extended Basic ROM calls, that those programs can't be made to
> > work without rewriting them.
> >
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I'm referring to. There are tons of programs
> (and
> usually it's the high-end software that presents the most problems)
> for RSDOS
> that simply will not work from anything but drive 0. Grrr. Many of
> those will
> only work from floppy 0... even being on hard drive 0-3 is not
> enough.
>
> So it looks like the only options are either to patch each software
> title
> individually or use a hardware RamDisk that the CoCo thinks is a real
> floppy
> (like the one Eric Rothfus (sp?) built). Anyone know how long it
> takes to
> backup a hard drive's virtual floppy to a RamDisk?
>
> Just looking for ways to make things easier.
> Cheers,
> Bob Emery
>
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