[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] DSK images to coco

[Robert Gault]

George Ramsower wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
> 
>>This stock Copy command won't work this way. Any attempt to Copy
>>filename /d1@  , for example, gives a 218 error; file already exists.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>It looks as though a special version of Copy will be needed or some
>>other program which will know how to write to /d1 at .
> 
> 
>   I didn't even try that. I knew it wouldn't work. So I took an old HD from
> a broken W95 box, put it in my other doze box and built the darned disk from
> that machine.
> 
>  The disk  I created was for the 6309 and it crashed that Coco, so my
> question of whether or not that Hitachi might be a 6309 is answered. So I
> got a copy of nos96809l2v030205_80d.dsk , used "SneakerNet"(haven't used
> that in a long time) to move it to the other computer(W95), used dskini.exe
> to build a boot disk and the new boot disk worked on my CC3, but if I put a
> stock OS-9 disk in it after booting the new disk, I get error 249 when
> trying to access it. Both systems (Nitro and non Nitro)are using 80 track
> 3.5 disks.
> 
>  Any suggestions?
> 

Use dmode to check how the drive descriptor is set up. Make sure that 
the /d0 (if that is what is used) in the booted version matches the 
properties of the older OS-9 disk. Error 249 is wrong format if I 
remember correctly.

>  Also....
> 
> 
>>As an aside, it took 10 minutes to transfer the current
>>nitros9v030205_80d to a Coco hard drive using HyperTerminal, OSTerm, and
>>nul modem connection through an RS-232 pak at 19200 baud. This is not
>>trivial and requires some care.
>>
> 
>   That's only about 800 baud.
> 
 ><snip>

True but writing to the Coco hard drive must be contributing to the 
slowdown.