>Well, here is something for you "DiskSpare device" users.  Have you ever
>been bored with formatting DSx: floppies and having to filecopy all your
>little data files...  It's long and boring !
>
>The solution is RDS (RAD Disk Spare) it is a simple manipulation of the
>official RAD disk which allows you to copy (small) files directly to this
>device and then whole-diskcopy the result to DSx: disks.
>
>Advantage, it's faster : the time you'll spend diskcopying the RDS over
>your DSx: floppies, you would have only done a single format over a DSx:
>disk (and still would have to file-copy the stuff).
>
>Disadvantage, it only support Double Density disks.

well, I "updated/fixed" this version to work with hd-drives. It was
just the double of the size of the bytespersector. To be sure I included
 the diskspare.device and the ProFileSystem with its dosdrivers.

>
>Well, anyway this should be of any use...  I guess so !
>
>INSTALLATION : simply copy to your SYS:Storage/DosDrivers directory and
>               double-click on it.

DiskSpare.device v3.0 (c) Klaus Deppisch
ProFileSystem 9.6     (c) Michiel Pelt
PS0		      (c) Dosdriver with ProFileSystem on Diskspare-Disks
PS0.info	      (c) its icon
DB0		      (c) Dosdriver for Diskspare-Disks
DB0.info	      (c) its icon

Just for testing I clicked on RDS and on DB0. After that I compared the
size of both devs - there were equal. But after that I diskcopied the
RDS to DB0 and it worked. So if you use this icons and the devices with
filesystem, you won't get any probs any more.

Greets,   Finn

P.S.: Just a hint : If you have diavolo-backup then search with a disktool
      for trackdisk.device. Replace all entries in the file with
      diskspare.device (both names have the same length) and you use the
      diskspare with diavolo (each disk can carry ca. 300k more with hd-
      disks).

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  647    2657  24.4% -lh5- 10a0 Feb  4  1997 RDS.info
[generic]                  306     462  66.2% -lh5- 917a Feb  4  1997 rds/db0
[generic]                  876    1524  57.5% -lh5- 7c32 Feb  4  1997 RDS/DB0.info
[generic]                 3690    5928  62.2% -lh5- 4fea Nov 13  1994 RDS/devs/diskspare.device
[generic]                16804   28656  58.6% -lh5- bd03 Feb 14  1995 RDS/l/ProfFileSystem
[generic]                  502     865  58.0% -lh5- 2d11 Oct  6  1995 RDS/PS0
[generic]                  878    1524  57.6% -lh5- 98be Feb  4  1997 RDS/PS0.info
[generic]                  502     807  62.2% -lh5- a777 Feb  4  1997 rds/rds
[generic]                  303     853  35.5% -lh5- cfac Feb  4  1997 RDS/RDS.info
[generic]                 1089    2116  51.5% -lh5- 8793 Feb  4  1997 RDS/RDS.readme
[generic]                  539     986  54.7% -lh5- a483 Dec 28  1992 RDS/RDS_old.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        11 files   26136   46378  56.4%            Feb  5  1997