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Super DiskCopy
by Super Software
Super DiskCopy was written by MaeDae Enterprises based on FastCopy by
Systems, Software, Support of Houston, TX.
Super DiskCopy 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 Super DiskCopy will be appreciated.
Super DiskCopy requires an IBM PC or compatible with 256K of RAM. Display
adapters known to work with Super DiskCopy are the IBM monochrome (MDA),
color (CGA), enhanced graphics (EGA), and video graphics array (VGA)
adapters.
Super DiskCopy supports all common 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch formats.
#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 Super DiskCopy Main Menu. From here you can access
the main functional areas of Super DiskCopy. Refer to the On-Line Manual
to get a feel for what a fully featured diskette duplicator can do.
An additional status window is displayed near the bottow of your screen.
It shows you the status for load, copy, compare, and format. A time in
seconds is displayed after each type of operation. This shows you the
time it took for the previous load, copy, etc. If 0 seconds is displayed,
then you haven't performed an operation to allow Super DiskCopy to time
that function. Super DiskCopy uses a "smart" form of counting where the
copy and compare counters are reset to zero when you load a disk. That way
they always provide you information relative to the disk you are working
with.
Please note that an abbreviated directory window will appear in the middle
right of your screen as soon as a valid source diskette has been loaded.
It will show the diskette volume label (if any) and first four file names.
We have tried to design Super DiskCopy to let you get your job done
quickly and easily. Please feel free to forward any suggestions for
improvement to us at Super Software, Attn: Super DiskCopy Author.
#85#
Super DiskCopy couldn't locate any files in the specified directory.
The computer uses a "mask" for directories. The mask used is always
"*.FDF" for all files. FDF stands for floppy disk file (FDF).
Super DiskCopy automatically adds this mask to the path for you.
#90#
Super DiskCopy couldn't locate your path. Are you sure you entered the
correct path to get to your file. Computers are dumb, you have to tell
them everything.
#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#
Help for Directory Screen: To use the file use the up or down arrows on
the numeric keypad to highlight a file name and then press enter.
All files in the directory listing are sorted. Super DiskCopy can handle a
directory containing up to 500 files. If you have more files than that in
a SINGLE directory then please break the directory into smaller ones
before running Super DiskCopy.
Cursor key movements:
Up Arrow - Move up one file. Down Arrow - Move down one file.
PgUp - Move up one page of files. PgDn - Move down one page of files.
Ctrl+Home - Move to the first file in the directory.
Ctrl+End - Move to the last file in the directory.
Use Enter to select the highlighted FDF file and start operations.
#201#
General note:
The file sizes are shown in K bytes to conserve screen space. This
abbreviated display method allows additional information to be shown
on the directory screen. Each K is actually 1024 bytes. If you use a
DOS directory listing to show the size of a file, it will show a 100K
file as 102,400 bytes (100 times 1024).
#250#
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.
All standard 160K, 180K, 320K, 360K and 1.2M 5 1/4" and 720K/1.44M 3 1/2"
diskette formats are supported.
#300#
Super DiskCopy 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 or a 1.44M diskette as a 720K disk.
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.
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Error codes:
Code Description
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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
Note: The description of these error codes were obtained from several