[Coco] DECB and BACKUP

[Kip Koon]

Hi Barry,
I have literally hundreds and maybe even thousands of old Coco disks in storage that I have not backed up yet.  I have the CocoSDC I can use for the backups, but I know you don't have the program ready yet.  What is a miniflash and how big is it?  I also have a SuperIDE controller from Cloud-9 as well and both are online on my Coco 3.  I'd like to test your Backup Programs as they become available.  
The problem I have is many of the diskettes are 40 track DSDD or 80 track DSDD made with various versions of modified DECB roms like ADOS and CDOS.  I also have old OS-9 diskettes just as big.  What I would like to see is a program that will backup any diskette format to a dsk image file on to the CocoSDC with automatic dsk file management like creation and naming of the dsk image so all I need to do is type in the name of each disk before inserting the diskette into the disk drive.  Maybe a Drivewire 4 version can be made to function in a similar fashion as well.  How do these ideas for a backup program to function compare with your ideas for your backup programs you have written or will write soon?  Please consider me a tester.  Thank you in advance.

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 Barry Nelson
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:04 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DECB and BACKUP
> 
> Do you have a CoCo 1 or 2, or a CoCo 3? If you have a CoCo 3 I have a program that backs up disks in one pass and can access
> Drivewire disk partitions under HDBDOS. I also have a vanilla version for RSDOS or SDCDOS. I have not written a special SDCDOS
> version yet...
> 
> On Aug 30, 2015, at 7:48 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:41 -0500
> > From: Ron <ron at kdomain.org>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Subject: [Coco] DECB and BACKUP
> > Message-ID: <55E37F9D.6020406 at kdomain.org>
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> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Is there a way to do BACKUPs in DECB without it clearing the contents
> > of the BASIC program in memory?
> >
> > I'm trying to transfer many floppy disks to a CoCoSDC and the BACKUP
> > command works great.  I wrote something that helps speed the process
> > up, but the BASIC program is gone when the BACKUP operation completes.
> > I thought I remember reading something about BACKUP needing as much
> > RAM as it can to do what it does.  I'm just looking for a way around
> > this so the running program will continue.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Ron
> 
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