Mr.Bacardi Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hi, is there a decent sector copy program available that can handle 1.44MB disks? Cheers, -Mr.Bacardi- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Double Density? One drive or two? -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodByteXL Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 HD Sector Copy from SDX Toolkit. http://sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=download&file=sdx_files/4.45/toolkit.atr Use SD or SDX to run from the command line interface. You may specify the number of sectors to copy, different options, copies virtually any A8 medium in high speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Bacardi Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Need to look at the toolkit.atr but I'm not a fan of spartaDos, therefore normal mydos format is the preferred choice. (double density. 1or 2 drives doesn't matter). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hello Mr. Bacardi MyDOS has a sector copier built in. Here's what "MAIN.DOC" says: J. Duplicate a Diskette The "J" command copies all the information from one diskette to another. The information to be copied form the source diskette is determined by specifying a starting and an ending sector number. If the range is not stated, the sectors marked as in use in the DOS bit map (on the VTOC sectors) are copied. The VTOC may be constructed by Atari DOS 2, any version of MYDOS or any other compatible operating system. Specifying a sector range is done by adding two numbers separated by a dash and enclosed in parentheses to the end of the drive specification(s). For example, to copy sectors 19 through 54 (tracks 1 through 3) from drive 1 to drive 3 without formatting the diskette in drive 3, the command line could be "1,3/N(19-54)". To copy the entire disk from drive 1 to drive 2 after formatting the diskette in drive 2 the command could be "1,2(1-720)". This is the proper way to duplicate a non-MYDOS compatible diskette (of course, copies of "copy protected" disks will not normally be usable after copying but data disks for some word processors and games can be backed up this way). Enhanced density disks may be duplicated in the same manner: "1,2(1-1040)". If the destination disk is already a properly formatted diskette, the "/N" modifier may be entered after either drive number to skip the formatting of the destination drive. Otherwise, the destination diskette will be formatted before the data from the source is copied to it. That is, either "1/N,2" or "1,2/N" will copy from drive 1 to drive 2 without first formatting the diskette in drive 2. Note that the "J" command, like that in ATARI DOS 2, will use all of available memory to duplicate the diskette: this means that if memory has been saved using the MEM.SAV file, it will no longer be valid. Any pending program cannot be restarted after a "C" or "J" command. Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) Hi, is there a decent sector copy program available that can handle 1.44MB disks? Cheers, -Mr.Bacardi- What disk drive are you using that does 1.44 meg? If I remember, that is a 3.5" drive, double or high density. My RW13.COM will copy any number of sectors from one disk to another. Use 'partial copy', it will sector copy an entire disk if you specify low and high sector numbers. It will do single or double density. If you have something that does high density, it won't work. I don't know of any high density A8 drive. RW13.zip Edited October 11, 2013 by russg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 What disk drive are you using that does 1.44 meg? If I remember, that is a 3.5" drive, double or high density. My RW13.COM will copy any number of sectors from one disk to another. Use 'partial copy', it will sector copy an entire disk if you specify low and high sector numbers. It will do single or double density. If you have something that does high density, it won't work. I don't know of any high density A8 drive. The Black Box Floppy Board supports 1.2MB 5.25" and 1.44MB 3.5" high density drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Bacardi Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Thanks all for the interesting feedback! Mydos seems to have some powerfull options, but what I'm looking for is something similar to "US Copy" by E.Reuss. Means: can be run from a gamedos, fast loading time, support of extra RAM and easy to use (just set destination drive and start copy). In my case it should work with my HDI connected to a 3,5" HD floppy drive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) The Black Box Floppy Board supports 1.2MB 5.25" and 1.44MB 3.5" high density drivesMr. Bacardi mentions an 'HDI' device. You mention BB floppy board. Are these high density drives 256 bytes/sector? If so, then I think RW13 will work. If 512 bytes/sector, RW is out. What's an 'HDI' device? A Hard Drive Interface? RW will work up to 65535 sectors. Edited October 11, 2013 by russg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Bacardi Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 Mr. Bacardi mentions an 'HDI' device. You mention BB floppy board. Are these high density drives 256 bytes/sector? If so, then I think RW13 will work. If 512 bytes/sector, RW is out. What's an 'HDI' device? A Hard Drive Interface? RW will work up to 65535 sectors. Hi Russg, HDI is a german HD disk interface for HD 3,5" & 5,25" floppies. density is 256bytes/sector. I will try your RW13, but need to set up my real hw first... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) Hi Russg, HDI is a german HD disk interface for HD 3,5" & 5,25" floppies. density is 256bytes/sector. I will try your RW13, but need to set up my real hw first... RW should work. It is slow. You can tell it to sector copy ENTIRE disk. Which just asks for total # sectors instead of start & end sectors of 'Partial copy'. You could, if you had a hard drive, copy the disk sectors to a file, then copy the file to a disk. Actually, I think a better, much quicker way would be to use Bob Puff's Disk communicator 3.2 and make a .DCM of the disk you want to copy and unDCM it to where you want it. I don't know if DCM will do large size disks. SpartaDOS SCOPY is another way, but SCOPY doesn't work reliably in my experience. I just checked. Disk Communicator does any size disk drive. Must specify max sector. It even says it will format the destination. You just need a separate drive large enough to hold the resulting DCM file. DCM32 won't take up space with an empty sector, it just notes it as empty and moves on. The result is a much smaller DCM file. It is fast and reliable. Edited October 11, 2013 by russg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Hello Mr.Bacardi Patching US Copy isn't an option? Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 (edited) RW should work. It is slow. You can tell it to sector copy ENTIRE disk. Which just asks for total # sectors instead of start & end sectors of 'Partial copy'. You could, if you had a hard drive, copy the disk sectors to a file, then copy the file to a disk. Actually, I think a better, much quicker way would be to use Bob Puff's Disk communicator 3.2 and make a .DCM of the disk you want to copy and unDCM it to where you want it. I don't know if DCM will do large size disks. SpartaDOS SCOPY is another way, but SCOPY doesn't work reliably in my experience. I just checked. Disk Communicator does any size disk drive. Must specify max sector. It even says it will format the destination. You just need a separate drive large enough to hold the resulting DCM file. DCM32 won't take up space with an empty sector, it just notes it as empty and moves on. The result is a much smaller DCM file. It is fast and reliable. Disk Communicator also compresses the file, makes it smaller.DCOMM32.zip Edited October 11, 2013 by russg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 If you are interested, I have an Action! 130XE sector copier (with the source) that is of course for single density. If you (or someone else) that is reasonably fluent in Action! wants to modify it for the HDI, it would not be too difficult. Much easier than converting an asm language program for most folks, IMO. It is pretty "bare bones" but I used it for years, and I think it will run with a mini-dos. It's called "UNICOPY." It is pretty fast -- runs on a Happy at WARP speed using an UltraSpeed driver. BTW, with MyDos, I always had to tell dos that the PBI drive was a "high capacity drive." The ordinary floppy settings would only do a 720K disk. I always used MyDos or the built-in sector copier with my Floppy Board HD drives. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 If you are interested, I have an Action! 130XE sector copier (with the source) that is of course for single density. If you (or someone else) that is reasonably fluent in Action! wants to modify it for the HDI, it would not be too difficult. Much easier than converting an asm language program for most folks, IMO. It is pretty "bare bones" but I used it for years, and I think it will run with a mini-dos. It's called "UNICOPY." It is pretty fast -- runs on a Happy at WARP speed using an UltraSpeed driver. BTW, with MyDos, I always had to tell dos that the PBI drive was a "high capacity drive." The ordinary floppy settings would only do a 720K disk. I always used MyDos or the built-in sector copier with my Floppy Board HD drives. Larry I'd be interested in playing with that action source... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russg Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Disk Communicator also compresses the file, makes it smaller.I played with Disk Communicator some. I think it doesn't do large drives properly, at least don't try to get it to format a large disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Hello guys Maximum sector number in Diskcomm IIRC is 9999. Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Hi BF2K+ Here's an ATR of the Unicopy files (use at your own risk). -Larry Unicopy.atr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmaOhneBH Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Maximum sector number in Diskcomm IIRC is 9999. Is there a (patched?) version by now, which can do up to 65535 sectors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Is there a (patched?) version by now, which can do up to 65535 sectors? Not really (or I never heard of it). And Diskcomm. or DCM is not used that often anymore, ATR has more or less become the standard. Nowadays we can upload/download a full 90k/130k/180k diskette without any problems and do not need to worry about space or download times... if we need a copy/backup image of a 16MB or 32MB partition, one can simply use ZIP, 7z, RAR, etc. to compress it and save some space. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmaOhneBH Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I'm asking because I recently copied an ATR image of 8000 sectors size to my IDE+ 2.0 with Disk Comm. 3.2, which worked fine: ATR image (AspeQt) --> DCM file (IDE+, partition 1) --> unDCMed ATR image (IDE+, partition 2) How do I do that with ATR images of more than 9999 sectors size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Try HDSC.EXE "HD Sector Copier" from the SpartaDOS X Toolkit. Should support copying up to a full 65535 sector disk. http://sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_download_special Edit: D'oh I see this was already suggested back in 2013! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) here's our max 720 kb copier (omc65/mac65 compatible listing), should be easy to get it work in higher densities. As far as I remember it supports max 256KiB RAM, also easy to add more. Very dirty code, but copied thousands of floppies ;] I could tidy it up a bit, convert to mads and translate polish labels if anyone's interested. MK720.zip Edited April 23, 2019 by pirx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmaOhneBH Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Try HDSC.EXE "HD Sector Copier" from the SpartaDOS X Toolkit. Should support copying up to a full 65535 sector disk. http://sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_download_special Ah sorry, I use MyDos only, should have mentioned it before. Thanks anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Ah sorry, I use MyDos only, should have mentioned it before. Thanks anyway! Back in 2013 in this very thread, Mathy indicates MyDOS has a sector copy function built in: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/217551-sector-copy-program-for-144mb-disks/?p=2845561 I don't use MyDOS, but it looks like a 1.44MB disk would be copied with this syntax for 5760 sectors? 1,2(1-5760) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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