Short: RDS (update) - The "DiskSpare RAD" - UPDATE! Author: hibisch@hotmail.com (HIBISCH - Philippe DUMONT) Uploader: stu33234 mail uni-kiel de (Finn Jacobs) Type: disk/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos Release: 04.02.1997 Update: stu33234@mail.uni-kiel.de (Finn Jacobs) >Well, here is something for you "DiskSpare device" users. Have you ever >been bored with formatting DSx: floppies and having to filecopy all your >little data files... It's long and boring ! > >The solution is RDS (RAD Disk Spare) it is a simple manipulation of the >official RAD disk which allows you to copy (small) files directly to this >device and then whole-diskcopy the result to DSx: disks. > >Advantage, it's faster : the time you'll spend diskcopying the RDS over >your DSx: floppies, you would have only done a single format over a DSx: >disk (and still would have to file-copy the stuff). > >Disadvantage, it only support Double Density disks. well, I "updated/fixed" this version to work with hd-drives. It was just the double of the size of the bytespersector. To be sure I included the diskspare.device and the ProFileSystem with its dosdrivers. > >Well, anyway this should be of any use... I guess so ! > >INSTALLATION : simply copy to your SYS:Storage/DosDrivers directory and > double-click on it. DiskSpare.device v3.0 (c) Klaus Deppisch ProFileSystem 9.6 (c) Michiel Pelt PS0 (c) Dosdriver with ProFileSystem on Diskspare-Disks PS0.info (c) its icon DB0 (c) Dosdriver for Diskspare-Disks DB0.info (c) its icon Just for testing I clicked on RDS and on DB0. After that I compared the size of both devs - there were equal. But after that I diskcopied the RDS to DB0 and it worked. So if you use this icons and the devices with filesystem, you won't get any probs any more. Greets, Finn P.S.: Just a hint : If you have diavolo-backup then search with a disktool for trackdisk.device. Replace all entries in the file with diskspare.device (both names have the same length) and you use the diskspare with diavolo (each disk can carry ca. 300k more with hd- disks).