[Coco] os-9

[Arthur Flexser]

The Disk Basic BACKUP command will copy an OS-9 disk okay, so I'd imagine
that the equivalent HDBDOS command would do the same with no problems.

Art
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked the disks at http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
> No single sided disks for coco 3.  You could likely generate some from
> the source tree, but maybe you can use double sided and just need to
> know how to create them?  I wasn't sure from your post.
>
> Copying a disk using DriveWire 4 is simple, you just need to do a
> sector by sector copy from one disk to the other.  In HDBDOS you can
> do this using the BACKUP command.  I do not know if this would copy an
> OS9 disk properly, or if there is an equivalent command in NitrOS9..
> actually i've wondered about that before.  Seems it would an easy
> enough thing to write if it doesn't already exist... read sector 0,
> write sector 0, increment, repeat, die on EOF etc.
>
> Well maybe that helped, or at least jarred someone's memory.. anybody
> got an OS9 sector copy tool?
> -Aaron
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com>
> wrote:
> > I've sold a disk drive to a new coco3 owner and he would like me to send
> a copy of os9 with it.
> > I've found the nitros-9 images, but they seem to be double sided.
> > What images are needed for use with a fd500 setup?
> > I can use either drivewire or coconet to transfer them to disk using a
> coco2 or 3.
> >
> > Any guidance would be very helpful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Later,
> > dabone
> >
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