Date   : Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:11:18 +0930
From   : "Raf" <rafg1@...>
Subject: Re: Copying from DFS to ADFS

For copying whole discs, quickly, between DFS and ADFS,
or vice versa, I find the XFER command of the ADT ROM
very useful.

Best wishes, Raf

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:48 PM
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Copying from DFS to ADFS


>> > The process is slow and shadow RAM is used as temporary memory, so you
>> need
>> > to make sure it is switched off, e.g.
>> >
>> > *SHADOW 0
>> > MODE 7
>>
>> I used *MOVE quite a bit when I was a regular Master user, and I don't
>> ever recall having to turn off shadow memory. MODE 135 (shadowed 7) was 
>> my
>> usual mode of choice.
>>
>> I can imagine it might use the shadow memory if it was free, to reduce 
>> the
>> number of read-write cycles, but are you sure you were forced to use main
>> memory?
>
> I'd suspect that it would use the remaining shadow RAM for the buffer 
> during
> the swap, the 1K used in MODE 135 won't make much odds, however, the 20k
> used by MODE 128 would be significant.
>
> Dave ;)
>
>
>