[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!

[Kip Koon]

Hi David!
Although everything seems to be running fine at the 115200 baud rate, I am
curious what is required to use the 230K baud rate.  You have peeked my
interest.  It seems I do remember some emails a while back mentioning the
230K baud rate, but as I hadn't figured out to get my Coco 3 to communicate
with my PC running DW4 server at that point, I pretty much just filed away
the emails.  Where is this document you speak of about using the 230K and
what is required to reversing the bit(s)?  Is this just a software setting,
or is there a different type of cable needed to be able to run the Coco 3 at
the 230K baud rate?  I'd like to try that.  Take care my friend.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of David Ladd
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:06 AM
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!

Bill,

As far as the stuff I was doing had nothing to do with the DW4 named ROM's.
Only the becker ones that should have replaced the DW3 to BECKER.

Kip,

The 230K mode you can set under the DW4 server via the pull down menu for
baud rate, but you must also set the special reversed bit option or what
ever it is.  Its the special mode to get the best possible baud rate out of
the CoCo3 doing special bit tricks.  There should be a doc on how to
configure the DW4 server for this mode, but I myself have never used these
ROM's.  I wanted to stay in the norm of RS232 COM's.  Makes it easier for
tracing down problems.

The main reason for all ROM versions for being build though was is for ease
of picking the one you want after building.  In most cases the DW3 CC3
should be the one you want for the CoCo3 and the DW3 CC2 for the CoCo2 and
the DW3 CC1 for the Coco1.  Though if you really want to play with the DW4
spec ROM you will need to configure the DW4 to use special settings.


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
>
> Bill Pierce
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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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