emusonacid!

What hardware and software do i need to help back up all my zip disks etc onto CD rom?


i'm also going to backup some of my original CD rom's onto another CD for storage

Here is a solution that requires the following things:
1. A SCSI-HD with a size of 700MB or greater as a target drive for files in EOS-format.
2. A HD data-header with EOSFAT, making EOS believe that the HD has a size of 700MB (= 716.800 KB).
3. A SCSI-card in your PC and cables to connect the HD to the E4 and the PC simultanous.
4. The program "Disk2File" e.g. v1.31 (search the web) for copying the data-header to the HD and copying the 700MB-image file in EOSFAT to the PC as an ISO.
5. A program to burn CDs, especially that can read .ISO-files. E.g.: NERO

Procedure:
1. Unzip the attached file "Header - 144 sectors.zip" to your PC-drive.
(Although the header-file is sufficient, you can also use the attached "EOS CD-ROM.ZIP" to get a complete clean 700MB-image.)
2. Write this header-file of 144 sectors via Disk2File to your SCSI-HD. They will be written to sectors 0-143.
3. Re-mount the HDs with EOS. -> The target SCSI-HD will be shown as a HD with a capacity of 700MB.
4. Backup your banks to this SCSI-HD. EOS will display an error if the capacity of 700MB is reached. Of course, you can put less files on it.
5. Read 1433600 sectors (from 0 to 1433599) via Disk2File from the SCSI-HD and let Disk2File save it to a file named e.g. "EOS.iso"
6. Burn "EOS.iso" to a CD-R. You can do this at a later time also but don't forget to give the backed up files reasonable names.
7. GOTO Step 2 and repeat the whole procedure until all files are backed up. Do not use "format" of EOS, else EOS will see the HD with its original size and not as a HD of 700MB.

These CD-Rs can be read by EOS via SCSI-CD-Rom drive.