[Coco] 5-1/4″ DS DD 80 track drive, 300 RPM mod

[Kandur]

Thanks Robert, 
I have 'HDKit (Pete Lyall).zip' that includes the .dsk file.
It includes the doc. .hlp and .man files.
Never used any Coco emulators, which one do you recomend?

Kandur

Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:25:36 PM, you wrote:
> Kandur wrote:
>> Bill, I have an HD backup set, made on a Coco-3 running OS_9 L2,
>> on 28 floppies, created by the HDKIT archiver/backup program.
>> Just want to restore/unpack them to any HD, anywhere.
>> Here is one question for you, while running nos-9 L2 dw on the Coco,
>> how can I copy a file from a mounted virtual disk on the server?

>> Kandur


> Kandur,

> I located the HDKIT package so if you no longer
> have the programs, I can send 
> you a virtual OS-9 disk containing them.

> Given the small amount of memory in your Coco3,
> I'd advise you use an emulator 
> to unpack the archive floppies onto a virtual
> hard drive. Once unpacked, you can 
> then copy the virtual hard drive to a real one on your Coco system.

> I'm not familiar with HDKIT but documentation
> will be included. A cursory glance 
> at the docs did not make it clear to me whether
> HDKIT cares what the format of 
> the receiving hard drive is, relative to the
> original, during a Restore process.

> Robert