[Coco] DW3/HDB-DOS

[tonym]

OK - I probably wasn't too clear...

I have the SuperIDE w/256MB CF card I got from Mark.
I have a DW3 server on my PC. I have the SuperIDE straight into the ROMPAK port on the CoCo3.

I want to be able to use DRIVE0-2 as DW3 drives, and the rest be the HDB-DOS virtual floppies,
so i can mount a bunch of .DSK images on DRIVE0 and do backup 0 to xx to copy them into the virtual floppies,
and not have to rely on having DW3 wired up or an FDD setup. I just want to pre-load all the DRIVE4-DRIVE250 with stuff.

Tony


---- Original Message ----
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
Sent: 7/6/2012 11:11:48 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] DW3/HDB-DOS

tonym wrote:
> Is it possible to have hdb-dos and DW3 on at the same time, with no physical drives required?
>
> I'd like to load up the hdb-dos VFDs with disk images over dw3.
>
> Unless someone knows something I don't... which is quite possible :)
>
> FYI, I have a SuperIDE from Mark, along with the 256MB pre-configured CF card with the VFDs and NitrOS-9 partitions.
>
> Tks!
>
> Tony

Let's make sure what you are asking. I think you want to run DW3 on a PC and 
HDB-DOS on either a Coco1/2 or Coco3. Since you mention HDB-DOS, you want to 
work under Disk Basic not OS-9.

Yes, you will need to have the appropriate HDB-DOS for Drivewire on the CF card. 
That must be loaded as the disk ROM. That is not the same ROM as the stock 
HDB-DOS used with the CF card VFD images.
Now if you mean that a VFD is the same as a MESS or VCC .vhd image, you can 
certainly mount them in DW3 if you have some on the PC. You may have trouble 
moving a VFD from the CF card to the PC unless you have a card reader on the PC.

There are some issues with using VFD images partitioned for both OS-9 and Disk 
Basic with DW3. DW4 permits setting an offset value for the Disk Basic partition 
which DW3 can't do. Without that, you would need to POKE offset values into 
HDB-DOS for Drivewire or edit the ROM.

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