EF3 USB Utilities 1.4 (all-in-1)

Hi all EF3 users...

Here is the 1.4 version of my USB transfer utilities.
This time I combined all seven utilities into one single server program on the C64 side and one single client exe on the PC side.
Also the D64 image reader/writer has now a Turbo mode (on by default) so you can read and write the images much faster now (around 2 and a half minutes).
The Copy part of the utility now doesn't wait anymore for a keypress and files without extension are considered to be PRG files.
This is the usage on the pc side (on the c64 side the server is constantly waiting for the commands from the client. You can, however, change drive number, directory or send a custom command to the drive).

Please see the readme for more details.

Download here: http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/ef3utils14.zip

Best regards,
Tomaz

Hi.

Glad it works. It is strange that people get so different read/write support with plushdos sector reader/writer. I get around 2:40 now. I just added revers sector order read/write and can get to 2 minutes flat (both read/write).
It is different with verify On though. Also next version will have 40 tracks support

Here is version 1.5 with the following new stuff:

- speeded up the Turbo Reader a bit with reverse sector loading.
- added 40 track support to D64 read and write (turbo version only!)
- added turbo format command - 35 and 40 sectors. Curtesy of tlr's "Format II" utility.
- "dir" and "copy" commands now also display the disk name and ID.

Link: http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/ef3utils15.zip

Best regards,
TC

Zitat von Retro-Nerd

This time i checked the D64 writing time with an online stopwatch. Took 4 minutes and 30 seconds. C64G+1541-II, no Verify or Kernal option used. Do you use USB 3.0?

Aparently the writing takes much longer on certain drives We have so far tried a few 1541-II drives and they all performed around 2:00 minutes for both read and write. The old 1541 drives however all suffer with d64 writing and people are reporting similar results to yours. This is the first time that someone reported slow writing performance with 1541-II drive though.
I am using plushdos sector read/write routines and currently its author - Krill - is looking into it.
I use USB 2.0 connection (it should not matter ).

Zitat von mario

I noticed that ef3usb doesnt check if a Disk/Partition if full, result is that it keeps trying to write to the Disk and always Reports a finished Transfer even if the Disk was full and it couldnt write to the Disk.

Maybe you want to Install a error check routine for that ?

Hmm, I need to do that, but currently don't know how, since after I output a chr to the file the error doesn't seem to be reported back. If any1 has ideas...

I can do that after each file... but I would like to stop writing if there is something wrong after each byte written...

TC

Zitat von mario

Checking each Byte is to time consuming i think but you could check before Transer if there are enough blocks left on Disk , Report an Error to the PC side if there is less Diskspace and check the Errorchannel afterwards to be 100% secure.

I have been searching for the "check if there are enough blocks left on disk" EVERYWHERE, but I couldnt find a way to see how many blocks are free on a disk (that is on ANY disk - mass storage, etc.)... is there any universal way to do this ? Anyone knows ?

Zitat von Unseen

Read the directory (open $ on secondary address 0) and read the "line number" of the last BASIC line you receive.

I was afraid that would be the only way... this can take A LOT of time Thats the only way ? If so then something else must be done