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From: rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DiskCopy To RAD:
Keywords: Amiga,Diskcopy
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Date: 7 Oct 89 21:06:52 GMT
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In article <45@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US> kenb@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Ken Baynard) writes:
>
>I was curious if there was a program available, like a modified
>version of the AmigaDos command 'DiskCopy" which would allow one to
>transfer a whole disk from say df0: to a formatted RAD: drive. I am
>using a 1000 with 2.5 meg of RAM and set up a 880k RAD drive when I
>boot and like to copy a Workbench disk to RAD: for the speed of access.
>
>                                     Ken Baynard
>                            Marquette Mi.   clmqt!kenb OR lopez!kenb

It's much simpler than you think. Set up your rad: as having 80
tracks (0-79), then rename it as df2: or df3: diskcopy will work
just fine on it. (Blazingly fast, too)


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