[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Brian Blake]

On 12/4/2012 5:28 PM, Luis Antoniosi wrote:
> >From the DISK BASIC, what is the benefit of accessing TC^3, DW,
> superIDE and floppy at the same time ? To copy from one to another ?
> What else could you do beside this ?
>
>

Luis,

To expand more on the response I sent from my phone - you have to get 
files to your SuperIDE or DrivePak, or whatever device somehow. For many 
it's been DriveWire; for others it's been CoCoNet.

If you just won a rare game or utility from an eBay auction, chances are 
you'll want to either make an image of it or for backup or copy it to 
your SuperIDE. Copying to the SuperIDE is easy. I assume your WIRED 
program has made it easier to create an image on a PC by copying that 
disk image from the SuperIDE to the PC using WIRED & DriveWire - but 
extra steps are involved in the process. If the capability were in place 
for the OS to detect attached storage media from the start the whole 
process would be easier.

Maybe I'm looking at all of this the wrong way. Is there a way to look 
at a SuperIDE storage device (CF card or hard drive) and manage the 
content of RS-DOS and NitrOS-9 partitions? I know Tim Franklin write 
CoCoPak to help manage the image stored on the DrivePak's SD card, which 
works really well for managing that device.


Brian