[Coco] Coco disks

[Richard E Crislip]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 21:11:50 -0600
Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 1, 2015, at 9:02 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > My question is this: How do I go about getting all these disks into
> > a .dsk format so I can share them? I have several 5 ¼” disk drives,
> > and (2) 512K Coco3s. Going from actual disk is something I’ve never
> > done, but I’ve copied several .dsk images to physical disks.
> 
> Use a COCOSDC interface ($40 assembled).
> 
> MultiPak has Floppy Drive controller in one slot, CoCoSDC in another.
> 
> Put in a formatted SD card in to the CoCoSDC, then boot up.
> 
> Make Drive 0 be your real drive:
> 
> DRIVE 0,OFF
> 
> Create a disk image for the disk you want to copy:
> 
> DRIVE 1,”GAMES1.DSK”,NEW
> 
> Put real disk on drive 0 and back it up:
> 
> BACKUP 0 TO 1
> 
> Repeat hundreds of times.
> 
> I had about 25 disks with errors, so I wrote a short basic program to
> copy sector-by-sector to get as much data as possible. This is what I
> have been doing the past few weeks.
> 
> 		— Allen
> 

How did you resolve the non-standard disk issue? I have many 40 track
dual sided disk and 42 track dual sided disks. TIA