From: uhclemLOSE.mar06@nemesis.lonestar.org   
      
   Doug_M  wrote:   
   : Hi, I want to make DiskDISK backups of my commercial floppies.  No   
   : problem using the backup command, but diskcopy complains.  So I thought   
   ...   
   : Anyone have any alternative software suggestions or   
   : maybe a patch?   
      
      
   I've got a patch around somewhere for one of the LSI disk copy programs   
   (I forget which).   
      
   What you are doing is along the lines of how I set the factory up for   
   keeping several diskette images on an attached hard disk during a time   
   when they were using Model 4s to make Model 4 diskettes.  This was a major   
   step up from going through this manual procedure of replacing disk 0 with   
   the source disk and then putting the OS disk back after each and every   
   copy completion, which is what they had been doing when I discovered   
   this activity.   
      
   The factory had switched to using Model 4s for making software diskettes   
   for quite the wrong reasons a month or so earlier (late 1984), and I'll   
   describe what was going on some other time.   
      
   I'll poke around and see if I can easily find the software I   
   patched-up for the software factory to use.   
      
      
   : I'd try SuperUtility and CopyCat.  Both seem hard-coded to only use   
   : drive 1 and 0.   
      
   I expect Superutility goes directly to the hardware, and so wouldn't   
   know how to get to a DiskDisk logical drive.  Not sure what CopyCat   
   does.  The typical copy software has to work within the OS rules and   
   use the OS I/O calls in order to reach DiskDisk filesystems, or it   
   has to replicate a lot of OS pieces on its own.   
      
   By the way, to make Kim Watt diskettes for the Radio Shack stores, they   
   had to keep Model Is in the factory as late as 1985.  No commercial   
   duplicating machine could make those diskettes as they were just too   
   non-standard/weird.   
      
      
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