[Coco] A caveat for Drivewire users

Tue Jul 2 11:31:33 EDT 2013

I know this Robert. I get reading errors with NitrOS-9 or using my WIRED.

I use DriveWire mainly to transfers disks from PC to Coco.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> If you are like me, you have not burned a Drivewire HDBDOS ROM but are
> just loading the ROM image from tape or disk. That will work just fine for
> many uses and programs but be warned. Any program that makes use of the all
> RAM mode and switches back to the ROMs for disk I/O will fail and probably
> crash your Coco!!
>
> I know of two programs that fall into this category, Lyra and my EDTASM
> super patch EDT6309. There certainly must be more programs that switch
> between RAM/ROM and all RAM modes.
>
> So before you blame Drivewire for your problems, regardless of Coco model,
> burn a disk ROM.
>
> Robert
>
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