Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:23:23 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: New storage system suggestinons?

On 14/10/2009, michael.firth@... <michael.firth@...> wrote:
> Couldn't you use TreeCopy (or equivalent) to copy each ADFS disk to a
> directory on the CF card, then use the back utility that comes with the IDE
> stuff to make a PC image of the CF card, and then use ADFS explorer to drag
> each floppy back to a separate ADL disk image (if you need them separate)
>
> I'm not sure how efficient the GoMMC PC access utilities are, so it may be
> that this process ends up being slower than your one.

I had thought of doing that (also, to the econet fileserver.) but I'd
have two choices:  Try and come up with a reasonably short folder name
for each disc, or actually sort through the files on the beeb to
categorise them as I copy them.  The GoMMC favours fairly verbose
names, so I just transcribe the disk labels, or describe the contents,
with a couple of keywords to help find things.


>
> ADFS Explorer also doesn't seem to handle loading hard disk images with lots
> of files on very well (at least on my PC), it spends a long time re-drawing
> the file tree as it scans each directory.

I've not encountered this, but I've not had particularly huge
structures go through it yet.

>
> The other option, which shouldn't be that hard, is to write a bit of BBC
> Basic or Machine code to create an "ADL" format file backup of an ADFS
> floppy, then you would just end up with a collection of disk images on the
> CF, which could then be extracted directly using ADFS Explorer.


Yup that would be fairly easy to do...

Rob