[Coco] Zip 100 drive

[rietveld rietveld]

You have it right.
I want to backup my rsdos zip disk(0 to 255) onto a cf card,  then i can use my cf adapter and laptop to clone the cards .   That way if i ever have the disk fail again i can just write the cloned image back to a cf card and use it with the superIDE

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From: keeper63 at cox.net
Sent: September 16, 2020 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Zip 100 drive

Ok - I think I may understand what the issue is - thinking about it a bit...

I'm taking it that you are using the ZIP drive with an IDE interface on
the the CoCo (probably with OS-9 or NitrOS-9)?

If so, then of course my suggestion won't work for your needs, so ignore
it - mostly.

I think I'd still maybe try one of the ATAPI IDE ZIP100 drives - they
aren't expensive (last I looked) on Ebay, so I think worth a shot.

That said, though - I seriously consider moving everything off one of
those drives and onto something like the SDC or something modern (or
mainly, more reliable - the ZIP drive was/is nice - but it always had
that "click of death" issue that I don't know if they ever solved).

Ultimately - get your data onto something that can be backed up, if you
aren't running backups already...ideally, the SDC or DriveWire, and some
kind of method to push it to a Google Drive or Dropbox or similar cloud
storage, plus something local - that would be ideal.

Then ditch the ZIP drive.

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