[Coco] drivewire suggestions

[Bob Devries]

As I understand it from reading the documents, the drivewire server currently only grabs 256 bytes when it is asked to get a sector. If the disk image is supposed to be based on 1024 byte sectors, then the server would need some kind of setting to select the sector size, or the client side would need to tell the server what size sectors it is expecting.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven Hirsch 
  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
  Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:41 AM
  Subject: Re: [Coco] drivewire suggestions


  On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Bob Devries wrote:

  > [dons flame proof jacket]
  >
  > While I understand that the drivewire server was originally written 
  > exclusively for the Coco, it seems to me that it could be made more 
  > versatile if it were capable of handling disk images of various sector 
  > sizes.
  >
  > This would make it usable with other computers, provided that 
  > client-side drivers could be written for those computers.

  I was thinking about what it would take to network an Apple IIe from DW. 
  The common super-serial card can do 57.6 k baud for sure and perhaps 115. 
  The IIGS should be capable of 230, since native localtalk transport 
  operates at that speed.

  Something tells me that the game port on a IIe can be bit-banged 
  considerably faster, but it's been a while.

  I think the sector size issue can be worked around with deblocking code in 
  the clientside driver.

  Steve




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