[Coco] Eureka! I'm Running My Coco 3 with Drivewire 4 Server Finally! or I Found a Bug in HDBDOS v1.4 DW4 Coco 3!

[Bill Pierce]

Kip and Aaron, If I remember right, a while back, David Ladd was renaming some of the "fixed" DW4 related stuff (os9 drivers, hdbdos etc) to dw4 since that was what was currently being used though a lot of things have been changed since then. I may be wrong and David can verify this.
Or it could be Darren's version. Not really sure. I know my version of HDBDOS comes up:
"HDB-DOS 1.4 DW3 Coco 3"

Aaron.. could Darren's version be used in VCC 1.43? Would it make a difference in drive access? Or does the Becker port/TCP not even care about baud rates?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 16, 2013 11:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Eureka! I'm Running My Coco 3 with Drivewire 4 Server Finally! or I Found a Bug in HDBDOS v1.4 DW4 Coco 3!


Aaron,
In the HDBDOS portion of the toolshed repository,  there are two DW4
versions, HDBDW4CC2 and HDBDW4CC3.  They are built along with the other
versions of HDBDOS so I was under the impression that they were the latest
versions.  If they ARE 230K Baud versions, then that would be the reason why
there was no communications with the DW4 server.  The server is set to
115200 Baud.  That raises another question.  If that is the case, then how
do you set 230K baud for the com port on the Windows PC?
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:19 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Eureka! I'm Running My Coco 3 with Drivewire 4 Server
Finally! or I Found a Bug in HDBDOS v1.4 DW4 Coco 3!

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> You ask why don't you run HDB-DOS DW4 Coco 3 in your Coco 3?  Well I'm 
> glad you asked that question because I think Bill Gordon and I have 
> found a bug in HDB-DOS v1.4 DW4 Coco 3!  He nor I can't connect to DW4 
> Server at all with the DW4 driver in HDB-DOS v1.4!  HDB-DOS v1.4 DW3 
> Coco 3 connects to
> DW4 server perfectly, but HDB-DOS v1.4 DW4 Coco 3 does not! Would one 
> or more people who can verify this please try to verify this and let 
> us all know your findings?
>

I might be forgetting something, but I am not sure why there would be any
difference in the DOS side for DW3 or DW4, or why a rom labeled "DW4" exists
at all.  The DriveWire 4 server was written to work with the DW3 ROM, as
this is the only ROM the author had and the thing called "DW4 Server" was
not intended to be a new version of the DriveWire server at all when it was
first written :)

Is the "DW4" rom maybe a version of Darren Atkinson's 230k speed build?  If
so, it would require a special cable and need special settings on the server
side to work.  Otherwise I am not aware of a reason for a ROM labeled "DW4",
although I still may be forgetting something.

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