Acorn FileStore E01, Service Manual

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Appendix A Test Equipment
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FservCopy
Select ‗C‘ from the FServMenu. This invokes FservCopy, the disc copying utility and
displays the following menu:
Copy disc from drive source to drive target
C Copy source disc to target disc (DESTROY ALL DATA)
D Change target drive
H Help, display this message
I Target drive information
J Source drive information
Quit back to main menu
S Change source drive
Using the options from the above menu, you can copy the entire contents of a disc from one
drive to another. The discs must both be the same ‗shape‘ i.e., the same number of sectors,
divided into the same number of cylinders, heads and tracks (this is checked by the
program), and the target disc must be formatted (but it need not be initialised, as the
initialisation data will be copied as well).
The copy is done sector by sector, and sectors of the disc that are not used by any file are not
copied, for efficiency. The result is an exact duplicate of the original disc. The title should be
changed before it is used in a FileStore, as it will be the same as the disc from which the copy
was made. This can be done using the FServEdit, or the FileStore command FSNamedisc.
To duplicate a disc onto a disc of a different shape, the utility NetMgr (supplied with the
FileStore) should be used: this copies the files and directories individually.