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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2645.0. "Floppy Backup" by HXOA01::STEEVES () Thu Jun 15 1989 13:15

This question concerns the diskcopy function from the CLI or the duplicate
    function from the workbench. Why does it require three insertions
    of both the source and destination disks to accomplish this task?
    For a while, I gave the Amiga the benefit of the doubt, having only
    1 MB of RAM and with the disks being 880K. However, after purchasing
    an additional 2 MB of expansion RAM, the same scenario exists. Is
    there any way to utilize the additional RAM to accomplish a 1 pass
    disk copy? Even the 1MB ATARI 1040 ST can do this!!!!
    
    
    Regards,
    
    Murray Steeves
    Field Service
    Moncton, N.B.
    Canada

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2645.1	copy ->ram:->destination	CRISTA::LEIMBERGER	I have my marbles now I want yours	`Fri Jun 16 1989 03:46`	13
	>> an additional 2 MB of expansion RAM, the same scenario exists. Is >> there any way to utilize the additional RAM to accomplish a 1 pass >>disk copy? Even the 1MB ATARI 1040 ST can do this!!!! With 3MB you should be able to copy the disk to ram:,and then copy from ram: to df0:If you are running with 1 drive you should have a c: directory in ram:,or if you have one drive and a floppy just copy df0: to ram: or RAD: put the destination in df0: "cd" to that disk then copy the file from ram: to df0:Of course this is only good from the CLI. I don't have a hard drive,but have 3 floppies so I have not had to do this for a long time.I feel that even with a hard drive,I would still want two floppies. bill
2645.2		LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Fri Jun 16 1989 08:27`	6
	I believe there's a PD diskcopy program for single drive users that will utilize system memory if available to allow a single-swap copy. Let me check around for it. Ed.
2645.3	Try DFC	CGOFS::CADAMS	Clint Adams - Calgary, Canada	`Fri Jun 16 1989 12:24`	15
	Hi... I am a one drive one meg user and have tried a couple of copiers and have found DFC to be the best. It will allow you to select buffering. With enough memory, this will let you buffer an entire floppy and make numerous duplicates from ram. For my one meg system I can do a copy with one change (buffers the first 60 tracks or so...) Clint... P.S... It can be found as DFC.ARC at CGOU01::AMNEW: as well as other locations on the net.
2645.4	DFC OK.	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Sun Jun 18 1989 14:30`	6
	Here's another vote for DFC. It's also on a Fish Disk somewhere... Alan T.
2645.5	another vote for DFC	GIDDAY::LAWSON		`Sun Jun 18 1989 18:04`	4
	.........and, DFC can replace both DISKCOPY and FORMAT and it's a hell of a lot smaller than both... Glenn