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#1#
EZ-Copy Lite
by EZX Corporation
EZ-Copy Lite was written by MaeDae Enterprises based on FastCopy by
Systems, Software, Support of Houston, TX.
EZ-Copy Lite turns your computer into a high speed diskette duplicating
machine equalling the performance of many dedicated hardware diskette
duplicators costing thousands of dollars. Comments or suggestions for
improving EZ-Copy Lite will be appreciated.
EZ-Copy Lite requires an IBM PC or compatible with 640K of RAM. Display
adapters known to work with EZ-Copy Lite are the IBM monochrome (MDA),
color (CGA), enhanced graphics (EGA), and video graphics array (VGA)
adapters.
EZ-Copy Lite supports 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K format 5 1/4 inch disks.
#20#
General help for all menus:
This menu is broken up into two basic windows. The window at the top
of your screen shows several options to choose from. The window at the
bottom of the screen expands on what will occur if you choose the
highlighted option (the one that has a different background color).
Options may be selected in one of two ways. You can either press the
first letter of the desired command or move the highlight bar over the
desired option and press enter. To move the highlight bar use either
the space bar, up arrow, down arrow, left arrow, or right arrow. You can
also use home to move to the first top line item on the menu.
Using the first letter of a command only works in the ACTIVE window. If
you don't have any pulldown then the active window is the top window.
Once you pulldown one of the options that becomes the active window. You
must use one of the commands in the pulldown once it is active. You can
always use Escape to back out of the pulldown and return to the top menu.
#21#
You are now using the EZ-Copy Lite Main Menu. From here you can
access the main functional areas of EZ-Copy. Refer to the On-Line
Manual to get a feel for what a fully featured diskette duplicator can do.
Please note that an abbreviated directory window will appear in the middle
of your screen as soon as a valid source diskette has been loaded. It will
show the diskette volume label (if any) and the first four file names.
We have tried to design EZ-Copy to let you get your job done quickly and
easily. Please feel free to forward any suggestions for improvement to us
at EZX Corporation, Attn: EZ-Copy Lite Author.
#100#
Drive was not ready for read/write. Please ensure you have a floppy in
the drive and the drive door is closed.
Sometimes on very fast AT compatible computers with 1.2 Mb diskette drives
the drive can't respond quickly enough. In this case try the operation
again or add a utility to modify the timeout on the drive. Several
programs are available to fix this disk drive timeout problem.
#200#
An error was detected while trying to read your source diskette. Please
ensure the diskette is inserted in the specified drive and that the drive
door is closed. Also you might try to take the diskette out and re-insert
it back into the drive. Sometimes the diskette isn't centered correctly
within the disk drive.
The source was not loaded so you will not be able to make any copies.
Only standard 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported.
#300#
EZ-Copy Lite could not perform the requested operation. This screen gives
help related to the format and copy diskette operations. An error occured
during the requested operation. Listed below are some helpful hints with
a detailed error listing provided on the next screen.
Please ensure: 1. The diskette isn't write protected.
2. There really is a diskette in the destination drive.
3. There is no obvious physical damage to the diskette.
4. You aren't trying to save to a 1.2 Mb diskette in a
360 Kb disk drive.
5. You don't have any disk cache software that is trying
to buffer writes to your floppy drive.
6. You really do have the specified destination drive.
This error may be generated on some hard disk based systems where you boot
from the hard disk. Try booting from a floppy containing your DOS. The
problem may go away. We have seen this happen with certain versions of
DOS, specifically Compaq DOS 3.31 and IBM PC DOS 4.0. We will continue to
research the problem and provide an update ASAP!
The next help screen will provide a detailed explaination of the error
codes.
#301#
Error codes:
Code Description
════ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
0 Unable to bring the diskette in drive up to speed for operation
1 Bad command: invalid request made to diskette controller
2 Bad address mark: sector ID marking invalid or not found
3 Write protect error: attempt to write on protected diskette
4 Bad sector: requested sector not on diskette
8 DMA failure
9 DMA boundary error: attempt to DMA outside 64K area
16 Bad CRC: diskette read found invalid parity check of data
32 Controller failed: diskette controller malfunction
64 Bad seek: move to requested track failed
128 Time out: drive did not respond
#400#
This screen shows you a lot of technical information that probably seems
very confusing at first. DOS uses all this information and more to keep
track of information stored on floppy diskettes.
As the IBM PC and DOS has evolved over the last few years so has the
formats of the media used in the computer. This has caused a large number
of formats for the media. EZ-Copy Lite uses the following drive types:
0 320K Double sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track
1 160K Single sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track
2 360K Double sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track
3 180K Single sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track
Other information displayed on this page will need to be looked up in a
DOS technical reference manual. You can easily obtain a book containing
this information from your local computer store.
Only standard 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported.
If you get an invalid drive type message then the diskette may be
formatted in a 720K, 1.2M, or 1.44M format. These formats are not
supported. *** More information about the diskette usage map follows. ***
#401#
A map of your diskette is also laid out before you. Any cluster with a *
contains information. Any cluster with a . doesn't contain information.
Information on how the clusters relate to absolute sides, tracks, sectors,
etc. can be obtained using the info/drive status option under the utility
section of EZ-Copy Lite.
Only standard 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported.
If you get an invalid drive type message then the diskette may be
formatted in a 720K, 1.2M, or 1.44M format. These formats are not
supported.
#600#
You must first load a diskette before you can save it or compare it to
another diskette. Use the load disk option to load a diskette.
Did you have a disk error on the previous read? Only diskettes which have
been read into memory can be written back out.
If you are using this option to format diskettes first format a clean
master diskette using your DOS. Load that diskette into EZ-Copy Lite.
Turn the forced format option on for best results. You can now save as
many copies of the diskette as desired. The result is the same as using
DOS's format command but is faster.
#650#
You must first load a diskette b