[Coco] A little help with DriveWire

[Joel Ewy]

Boisy Pitre wrote:
>> Boisy, can you copy disk images from the host PC to a CoCo floppy, say
>> by using DECB's BACKUP command using DriveWire?  The DriveWire
>> documentation on the Cloud 9 site doesn't mention one way or the other
>> whether the BACKUP command works.  I believe Marcus mentioned in an
>> earlier post that he is getting a disk system.  If this works, then he
>> can run his OS-9 and Sundog (etc) games from a real floppy disk.
>>     
>
>
> Yes, BACKUP does work.  Insert the floppy disk in CoCo drive 0, and  
> insert the virtual disk in virtual drive 0 on the server.  Type the  
> following commands:
>
> DRIVE ON
> BACKUP 0 TO 1
>
> The above commands make DriveWire's drive 0 active, and backs up the  
> disk in drive 0 to the disk in drive 1.  Keep in mind that a single  
> disk image under DriveWire has 256 'virtual' disks.  So we are  
> backing up the disk onto the same virtual file on the PC.
>
> Now insert a blank floppy into drive 0 and type:
>
> DRIVE OFF 0
> DSKINI 0
> BACKUP 1 TO 0
>
> That will backup the disk in virtual drive 1 onto the floppy disk in  
> drive 0.
>
> Hope this isn't too confusing.
>
>   
Thanks for the clarification, Boisy.  And if I'm not wrong, you can back
up an OS-9 floppy using the DECB BACKUP command, even though you can't
read its contents, since BACKUP just does a track-by-track copy without
regard to any file structure that exists on the disk.


JCE