[Coco] Drive Pak progress

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> Good news,
>
> A set of Drive Pak boards arrived today and everything is looking good.
>
> I just booted into NitrOS-9 on my 2GB MicroSD card and I'm at the prompt.  A
> little work needs to be done with the OS-9 drivers to allow it better access
> to partitions and disks 0-255 like how Disk BASIC does it, but most of the
> work is done.  I think a few tweaks to the OS-9 drivers will do the trick.
>  I'll leave that up to the OS-9 community to improve on the drivers to
> access more using some base descriptors perhaps.  I can't see having 256
> descriptors labeled U0 - U255 for accessing floppies in a partition.
>
> My pak starts up running a sector reading loop test.  I hit BREAK, typed
> DRIVE #"OS9" to change the partition then typed DOS, and up came NitrOS-9 in
> a few seconds.
> I could easily change my *.bas program to be: 10 DRIVE #"OS9":DOS  to boot
> into NitrOS-9 on powerup.
>
> I really need to find a MicroSD card cloner (to local .img file then back to
> other cards).  I use Windows 7 now.  It is not ideal for me to load each
> customer's MicroSD card FROM the CoCo over the bitbanger cable or wireless
> connection due to how much longer it would take.
>
> Does anybody know what Windows app can copy a MicroSD card bit-for-bit and
> clone it onto another card?  I mean a mirror image.

In Linux, this is easily done with 'dd'.  Here is a Windows version,
looks like it would work although I have no experience with it:
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd


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