[Coco] Easy way to copy 40 track disks to the CoCoSDC?

[Kip Koon]

Hi Tim,
Thank you soooo much for this program!  I have been wondering for months now how I was going to back my myriad of disks with various formats to .dsk files on my CoCoSDC.  I really appreciate it.

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of tim lindner
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 10:57 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Easy way to copy 40 track disks to the CoCoSDC?
> 
> Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm assuming that my disk have 40 tracks, but how can I be certain of
> > that ? How to identify if a disk has 40 tracks ? There is a utility to
> > identify that ?
> 
> I won't really be able to test the hack for a few weeks.
> 
> I think a quick internet search with the drives model number will return the number of tracks it supports.
> 
> On the drives I have I can count the audible track steping. When it goes from 35 to 36 it will sound different if the drive is a 35 track
> drive.
> 
> Here is a program I use on the CoCo 3, with my 40 track disk drive to backup 40 track disks. It probes the disk to look for the last track:
> 
> 5 REM READ REAL DISK IN DRIVE 0 COPY TO DISK IMAGE IN DRIVE 1
> 6 REM FOR COCO 3 AND SDC
> 10 DRIVE 0,OFF
> 20 CLEAR 2000
> 30 ON ERR GOTO 100
> 40 POKE &HD534,127 : REM SET TRACK LIMIT TO 127
> 50 T=34
> 60 PRINT "TESTING T:";T
> 70 DSKI$0,T,1,A$,B$
> 80 T=T+1
> 90 GOTO 60
> 100 REM FOUND MAX TRACK
> 110 M=T-1
> 120 ON ERR GOTO 280
> 130 T=0
> 140 S=1
> 150 INPUT "DISK NAME:";C$
> 160 IF RIGHT$(C$,4)=".DSK" THEN 180
> 170 C$=C$+".DSK"
> 180 DRIVE 1,C$,NEW
> 190 REM
> 200 DSKI$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
> 210 REM
> 220 DSKO$ 1,T,S,A$,B$
> 230 S=S+1
> 240 IF S=19 THEN S=1:T=T+1
> 250 IF T=M+1 THEN END
> 260 PRINT ".";
> 270 GOTO 190
> 280 PRINT:PRINT "ERROR T:";T;" S:";S
> 290 IF ERLIN<>200 THEN STOP
> 300 A$=STRING$(128,CHR$(255))
> 310 B$=A$
> 320 GOTO 220
> 
> 
> 
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> tlindner at macmess.org                                              Bright
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