[Coco] Drive Pak progress

[Sean]

I'd bet that if you didn't want to install Linux, you could use one of
the many available 'live' CD distributions and use DD after booting
from the CD.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>>
>> Thanks
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>>
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