Re: EDD Plus Project

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Deckard" <deckard@a2central.com.remove-cp9-this> wrote in message 
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>  To: Charlie
>
> > >> disk2fdi is by far
> > >> the fastest way to make archive images of them (.do, etc.).
> > >
> > > How many time for creating 10 .dsk files?
> >
> > It takes about 30 seconds to create a .do (same as most .dsk images) 
> > image.
> > So of course 10 files would be about 5 minutes depending on how fast you
> > can stuff the floppies in and run the program.
>
> > Remember this is with the registered version of disk2fdi with the two 
> > wire
> > cable, etc.
> > The free version can also make .do images but requires two floppy drives
> > and is slower (time varies but usually about 1.5 minutes per floppy).
>
> With my 256k Apple IIe platinum, 2 "disk II" drives, FASTDSK takes 20 
> seconds
> to create a .dsk on a prodos device (CFFA). FASTDSK is an apple II 
> freeware.

Okay, that's fast.  However I'd then have to move the images again to my pc 
for use with an emulator and archiving using a serial cable (I don't have a 
CFFA/compactflash reader).  With disk2fdi the images are already there.
Also, quite a few of my floppies are 3.5 inch and disk2fdi handles them as 
well. Of course they take longer than the 5.25 inch floppies.

> > Also, as Michael Mahon mentioned you can't read the "back" side of the
> > Apple ][ floppies with this set-up.  I use an Apple //e with a duodisk 
> > to
> > copy the backs to the front of a floppy that I use for disk2fdi.
>
> FASTDSK can read back side of A2 floppies and the process doesn't require 
> an
> extra backup.
> Once the prodos device is full of .dsk, I just have to insert the 
> cartridge in
> a compactflash reader and transfer the files to my pc with Ciderpress 
> (which
> is very fast).

Sounds like a very good way to archive your floppies.

> > Copying on the Apple //e is slower than my disk2fdi setup.
>
> With my apple II configuration, Locksmith 6.3 Fast Copy Backup copies a 
> side
> in less than 20 seconds.

I've been using Copy][+ and it reads the disks pretty fast but writing to 
another disk is slower.  Between the reading and writing it is definitely 
more than the time disk2fdi takes to create a .do image (that is, more than 
30 seconds).

By the way I must admit that my statement of the time being 30 seconds is a 
rough estimate from memory since I haven't created a .do in a while I can't 
really vouch for its accuracy.   But I did image most of my 5.25 inch 
floppies (many hundreds) about two years ago and the process went very well.

I was running the //e at the same time doing the back side copies and 
disk2fdi was considerably faster at making an image than Copy][+ was at 
copying the floppy with my duodisk.

Charlie