Checkdisc : verify the selected tracks,
TrackCopy : copy the selected tracks.
SectorCopy : do the same as above - just deeper.
Get image : create an image of your disc as file specified in <DeepCopy$Dir>.imagefile. Please note, that only selected tracks are being copied.
Put image : put back the image created with the last option. Be careful, because on the disc the image will start at the selected first track, not on the first one used when getting the image (some guys told me that makes sense, please don't ask me why).
Now, let's have a look at the other parameters and the use of some icons ...
Clicking on the drive symbols will enable or disable them (if there is only one source drive this will always be active). While you can select any number of, of course configured, destination drives, you can only select one source drive at a time. Clicking on the arrows under "First track" and "Last track" with the left button will increase or decrease those tracks by one, using the right button by ten.
The START-button will start the specified action. After clicking that one the button will change to an STOP-button with whom you can abort the current action. This button is also used when changing of discs is needed - it will prompt you to CONTINUE when ready. There is a status line on the bottom which always tells you what is done or what has to be done.
Multiple copy means you can copy the selected tracks several times without reading the source each time before you want to copy the same tracks again. Please note, that this can only be done with as many tracks as will fit into free memory.
If "Verify tracks" is selected, after each write the written track will be verified.
To copy discs with read-errors or ignore any other errors while reading or writing you can select this option.
Last not least you can pop up a small window which shows you the meaning of all symbols and leds which could appear while using DeepCopy II. To do this just click on the "!" beside the logo.
To save the current settings as your defaults you can use the Save-option in the icon-bar-menu.
I hope this tool may help you sometimes or just make your life a little bit easier,
Mike.
Author: J.J.A. van Gink
Copyright: Der Hansie Developments
Modified by: Jon Ripley
Formats supported:
Formatting a disk in any of the formats will take up to 65 seconds. Verifying the disk takes up 32 seconds.
For comparison: the format on the MS-DOS emulator takes up to 194 seconds...
DOS-II is a joint venture of D.H.D. and L.I.C. and was designed mainly to be able to exchange data between Archimedes and Sinclair computers. The disk is formatted as 10 sectors of 512 bytes each per track, numbered 1 through 10, with a formatted capacity of 795 Kbytes. The system includes subdirectories (up to 32) which do not take up extra disk space. For more information on this disk system, contact either D.H.D. of L.I.C.
As mentioned in the program itself, I am always interested in more often used formats for this program. All I need is disk formatted in the format you want...
The author will take no responsability whatsoever for any damage resulting from loss of data from disks formatted with this program. All formatting is done at own risk.
Happy formatting!
Modification History (started 13-Sep-97)
| v1.1 | Original version (Jul-90) |
| v1.2 | Modified by Jon Ripley 13-Sep-97 ADFS S and ADFS M formats added! |