[Coco] SuperIDE, compact flash, and Linux

[Frank Pittel]

I can't speak for question 2 or 3 but I can say definitively
that you can use dd to back up your cf card!! I use drivewire
so I haven't had any reason to try 2 or 3.


Frank


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:06:07PM -0400, Rich Carreiro wrote:
> If any of you use Cloud-9's SuperIDE controller with
> a CF card, and also have a Linux box, I'm curious
> about some potential backup/restore/transfer operations.
> 
> 1) Will doing stuff like:
>      dd if=/dev/whatever of=cocoflash.bak
>   for a whole card backup, and
>      dd if=cocoflash.bak of=/dev/whatever
>   for a whole card restore work?
> 
> 2) Is the size of a HDB-DOS virtual floppy (as it is
>   laid out on the CF card) always the same size, no
>   matter how much or how little is on the floppy?
>   If so (assume for now that size is 158K), can
>   you backup/extract drive 10 (i.e. 11th floppy) with
>      dd bs=158K if=/dev/whatever of=floppy10.dsk skip=10
>   and can you restore/"mount" floppy #10 with
>      dd bs=158K if=floppy10.dsk of=/dev/whatever seek=10
> 
> 3) If you can do (2), can you do something like that to
>    transfer a .dsk you downloaded (or created via an
>    emulator or when using Rainbow IDE) onto the CF card?
>    Or do those DSK files have "extra" stuff in that that's
>    used by the emulators and cannot be used "as-is" by
>    a real CoCo?  I've also notices that some DSK files I've
>    seen online aren't the full 158K.
> 
> 4) I'm also curious to know how/if you can do this stuff
>    from a Windows system.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Rich Carreiro                            rlcarr at rlcarr.com
> 
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