First off I wanted to say that I have been using the CFFA3000 a bit over the last week and it’s been awesome. The level of quality and design that was put into it was more than I had imagned. It’s really quite an amazing card for us retro computer geeks!
I have a technical question and two feature suggestions;
My question is about the CFFA.CFG file that gets put on the flash drives. The format looks simple from what I can see but would you be willing to publish the format of it? Most times I put a new image on the USB drive I want it mounted when I boot up and I am interested in creating a simple util/script to manage the images including setting which ones are selected/active.
My suggestions are;
1) Allow suppressing prompt for CF/USB when creating an image. I keep a CF card in my CFFA3000 for HD images but I am using the USB a lot as I organize and go thru my floppy media. It would be nice to be able to disable the prompts when creating new image files (blank or copies) on which media to copy it to.
*I know you can use the same settings the 2nd time when batching but I am doing a lot of one off imaging as I work thru various media. I will be batching a lot of stuff soon and the repeat option will be great for that.
2) Add an option to copy one or more images between USB and CF cards. I like using the CF card since it’s nicely hidden inside and so being able to use a USB drive mainly to move images in and out of it would be convenient.
*This can be done now using the import disk image and setting the source as a mounted image but you end up with disk0001.dsk and not the same name. It probably would be faster to copy the files over rather than doing it with normal disk IO routines too.