[Coco] Copy files from Coco-3's physical drives to DW4 virtual disk

Kandur k at qdv.pw
Fri Aug 8 16:24:54 EDT 2014


Aaron, it succesfully wrote to 9 identical JVC formatted DW disks.
The 10th gave the 245 error, the 11th was error free again.
I repeated to copy the 10th again, this time was no error.
Ok, how do you suggest to format a 720k DW disk?
Please be specific, I'm a noob. :)

Kandur

Friday, August 8, 2014, 1:10:03 PM, you wrote:
> DriveWire does not support writing to JVC format disks.
>  On Aug 8, 2014 2:51 PM, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

>> Thank you Gene.
>> The floppy had only one file, 'part10',
>> at the end of the copy I got a write error 245,
>> but 'dir -e' showed identical byte counts on both drives.
>> Looks, if the whole file was copied, too.
>> Wondering what caused the error?
>> See the last photo here:
>> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=222

>> Kandur

>> Friday, August 8, 2014, 12:08:18 PM, you wrote:
>> > On Friday 08 August 2014 14:19:55 Kandur did opine
>> > And Gene did reply:
>> >> How can I access drive 1 on DW4 from the Coco-3?
>> >> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=222

>> >> Kandur

>> > dw4 files that look like a disk drive are behind the /x0, /x1, etc rbf
>> > file descriptors.

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