I have a c128 w. 1541 drives and a 1581 drive. I also have an old
database program that uses relative file to write the data to the
1541 disk on tracks 1-16, and 20-35. I want to move the data to my
1581 drive because, at one set of data per sector, I am using about 530 sectors and don't have a lot of room left on my disk. The program is in assembly
so I'm not going to modify it. Looking at the block read/write info for the
two drives, I can't see an easy way to transfer the data, taking into account
the differences in track/sector numbers on the 1541 and the nice constant
40 sectors/track on the 1581. THe u1, u2 will load the sector into disk memory,
but then I need to send it to the other drive to write it out.
It looks like I'm stuck using a full blown block-read/write, trying to make sure
I don't lose the first byte of the data.
I could use Disk Doctor to read one sector and write it to the other drive,
but not 530 times. Am I missing something here? Is there a magic application
out there that I can use to read 1541 sectors and dump them (unchanged) to
a 1581 drive?
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