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

[Kandur]

I'm making copies of an HD backup set of 28, 5.25" DS DD 96tpi floppies
to DW disks, hoping to restore the original SCSI HD's content.
I modified the drive to rotate at 300 rpm, OS-9 can read it and write to it.
http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=128 
This process is slow, and painful, but seem to be working.
http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=185 
Any suggestions?

Kandur

Friday, August 8, 2014, 1:41:21 PM, you wrote:
> You will want to check the contents of those JVC images.  They may not
> actually contain any changes made to them.  I really don't think I ever
> wrote the code for write support for any format other than plain old dsk.

> There is no concept of "formatting" specific to DriveWire, nor is there the
> idea of a "720k" disk unless you use some of the advanced settings to
> enforce such a thing, which is rarely needed.  Drive Wire doesn't
> understand sides or densities or tracks or any of that.

> If you configure an OS9 device descriptor for one of the DW drives to match
> the attributes of a 720k floppy disk drive, then running the standard OS9
> format utility should create an image that has the same number of sectors
> as a physical 720k floppy disk would have.  That would be the closest thing
> to a "720k" disk image that you could have in drivewire.
>  On Aug 8, 2014 3:27 PM, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

>> 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.

>> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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