[Coco] CoCo SDC question

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

I didn't use the SDC much until now, i'm not used to its commands. If you
tell me exact what commands do you do to create and mount the disk image I
cant try later at home. I have FD502, FD500 but they are double drives. 3
1/2 and 5 1/4.

other important stuff: is your coco3 in turbo mode ?



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2014 09:50:21 -0400, CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>  sorry i did't look at your original email, but someone else's reply.
>>
>> again since you didn't tell the problem, we could only help generally
>> speaking.
>>
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>>
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>>
> That's understandable, and really no need to apologize. I think some
> issues I'm having personally might have me appear a little more on edge
> than I thought - and for that, I apologize.
>
> Here's the nutshell:
>
> My system is as follows:
>
> 512k CoCo3 with 63C09
> MPI w/ PAL upgrade
> FD-501 in slot 4
> SDC in slot 3
> 3.5" floppy using 720k media
>
> Slot switch on 3
>
> Created a new floppy image in the root SDC folder called test.dsk.
>
> Real floppy is drive 0
> Test image on drive 1
>
>
> Disk image Format time is about 27 seconds
>
>
> Backup from Floppy Disk to SDC:
>
> 2 min 7 sec (average over 3 tries)
>
> Several times the back up process gave me an I/O error.
>
> Darren's tests show this should be about 47 seconds - and yes, I did try
> it with VERIFY OFF just in case.
>
>
> Backup from SDC to floppy disk:
>
> 5.5 sec.... None of the three attempts gave me any I/O errors.
>
>
> I tried it with two different floppy drives and two different cables. When
> using normal floppy to floppy backups, I get times around 1 min 25 sec.
>
> How's that for weirdness?
>
>
>
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