[Coco] dw 3
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Mon Nov 22 20:09:23 EST 2010
Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> Hrmm we may have some wires crossed. What the switch does is to
> ignore the drive sent in the DW op call altogether, and instead map to
> a disk image based on the sector being read or written to. Sectors
> 0-629 point to "disk 0", 630-1259 are "disk 1", and so on all the way
> up to disk 255. DRIVE #0-3 makes no difference, DRIVE 0-255 does.
>
How is that different from the normal HDBDOS with Drivewire? That combo already
selects drives 0-255 for whatever DW slot has been selected.
The only difference I can see is that HDBDOS calculates the LSN based on
630xdrive# so that nothing needs to be calculated by Drivewire.
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