[Coco] Copying over an IO ERROR

[Arthur Flexser]

(I meant omit SECTORS that give an IO error, not tracks.)

Art

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> There were a few programs like Spit 'N Image designed to copy
> copy-protected disks that will do a track-to-track straight reproduction of
> the disk, if you actually want to preserve the IO errors.  It is relatively
> easy to write a Basic program that will copy sector by sector and omit
> tracks that give an IO error, if that's what you want.  You can do it
> either with DSKI$ and DSKO$, or by EXECing DSCON after loading its
> parameters at $00EA-00F0.
>
> Art
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there ANYTHING that can copy a disk after it hits an IO ERROR? I’ve got
>> LOTS of Rainbow on Tape disks that will error out about ¾ through the
>> process of backing the up. Isn’t there a subroutine that will copy track
>> by
>> track?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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