[Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

Chad H chadbh74 at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 22 23:34:03 EDT 2013 

Did do that too, it upgraded to the "p" revision.  I did find the right .ROM
to flash my EPROM with but still getting same thing as when I was using the
.BIN version..

Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:00.046  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:00.046  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
OP_READEX took 218ms.
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:03.312  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:03.312  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
OP_READEX took 234ms.
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:05.890  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:05.890  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
OP_READEX took 219ms.
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:33.078  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:33.078  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
OP_READEX took 235ms.
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:35.500  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:35.500  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
OP_READEX took 219ms.
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:37.578  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
Sun Sep 22 2013 22:31:37.578  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-9
OP_READEX took 235ms.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Ken H.
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:13 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

Make sure you have the latest version of Drivewire server using
menu/tools/check for new version.
There was a recent bug fix for CoCo2 turbo mode


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Set the following...
> DetectDATurbo=true
> DW3Only=False
> HDBDOSMode=true
> SerialRate=115200
>
> Still IO ERROR with the following...
>
> Sun Sep 22 2013 20:01:50.406  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
> Sun Sep 22 2013 20:01:50.406  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> OP_READEX took 250ms.
> Sun Sep 22 2013 20:01:53.781  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_READEX
> Sun Sep 22 2013 20:01:53.781  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> OP_READEX took 266ms.
>
> Changing any of the above settings results in "Invalid Opcode" errors or
> hangs.. ugh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Ken H.
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:30 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?
>
> You need to set DetectDATurbo=true   at the drivewire config menu (turn
> advanced config on) so that he sever will respond to the HDBDOS request to
> switch to turbo mode.
> Also make sure that your cable is turbo mode compatible.  Pins 1&2 on the
> CoCo side should be connected.
>
> On Monday, September 23, 2013, Chad H wrote:
>
> > Ok, I switched to XP box and got DriveWire 4 running after having to
> > install
> > Java (Version 7, latest).  I created a test.dsk file and loaded my
> > DriveWire
> > 3 ROM and all was working well.  I then loaded the DriveWire 4 ROM in
the
> > Snapshop archive posted by Tormod (Thanks again) and it does boot and
say
> > "HDB-DOS 1.4 DW4 COCO 2" and go to OK prompt.  But all Disk ops are
> failing
> > with ?IO ERROR, even simple DIR of the test.dsk.  Here's the DriveWire 4
> > server side log of this.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:41.359  INFO   DWProtocolHandler   dwUIcliIn-44
> > requesting protocol device reset
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:47.406  INFO   DWSerialDevice      dwproto-0-10
> > opened serial device COM1
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:49.156  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > UNKNOWN OPCODE: 25
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:49.156  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > UNKNOWN OPCODE: 33 !
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:49.359  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_FASTWRITE_10
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:49.359  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > OP_FASTWRITE_10 took 203ms.
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:51.890  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > UNKNOWN OPCODE: 25
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:51.890  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > UNKNOWN OPCODE: 33 !
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:52.093  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_FASTWRITE_10
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:52.093  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > OP_FASTWRITE_10 took 203ms.
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:56.890  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > UNKNOWN OPCODE: 29
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:56.890  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > UNKNOWN OPCODE: 33 !
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:57.093  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > Timed out reading from CoCo in OP_FASTWRITE_10
> > Sun Sep 22 2013 18:45:57.093  WARN   DWProtocolHandler   dwproto-0-10
> > OP_FASTWRITE_10 took 203ms.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com <javascript:;> [mailto:
> > coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com <javascript:;>] On
> > Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
> > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:44 AM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Chad H
> <chadbh74 at hotmail.com<javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > > I concur with this entirely.  I also feel what Aaron said about
> > > "documentation not being fun".  While I'm not currently employed as a
> > > "programmer" per say, I do make use of my skills in this area at my
> work
> > > place not only for personal benefit but also for the benefit of
> > co-workers.
> > > Many of my projects there are SOLEY for their benefit in fact.  I to
>  do
> > not
> > > care for "waisting time" on documentation.  Some of those knuckleheads
> > > wouldn't even read it anyways, they just come straight to me to figure
> > out
> > > how to do something with the applications I come up with.  It's just
> how
> > > people are wired...they go to whatever resource is the most convenient
> > and
> > > helpful.   Here in the CoCo online community, people can't just call
up
> > or
> > > talk directly to the authors, they need a good place to go to get
> > > 'standardized/official' support.  Now if they take it upon themselves
> to
> > > experiment and go outside the box to 3rd party ROM's or other mods,
> they
> > > should seek support elsewhere on that.  It's not the responsibility of
> > the
> > > author to support mahem they didn't create.
> > >
> > > On a side note... I think I found that DriveWire 4 package is NOT
> > supported
> > > by Windows '98.  If it is, will someone please tell me what I'm
> missing.
> > I
> > > will describe what I've done so far.  Keep in mind DriveWire 3 already
> > runs
> > > fine on this machine.
> > > *  Unzipped and executed DriveWire 4, got message: "Java 1.5 is
> required"
> > > and it closed, so I researched
> > >         For the lastest win'98 compatibal Java package which does seem
> to
> > be
> > > 1.5.
> > > * Installed Java 1.5 (586) revision 18 and attempted to execute DW4,
> got
> > > message: "Could not find the Main class.  Program will exit".
> > >         I Googled this and found someone had some luck running it from
> > the
> > > command line after Java was added to the PATH so
> > >         I tried that and got: Exception in thread "Main"
> > > Java.Lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError
> > >
> > > I suspect DriveWire 4 was compiled to use a higher version of Java,
> which
> > > Windows '98 doesn't seem to be able to run a higher version of Java.
I
> > > tried installing Java 1.6 and it failed.
> >
> > DW4 is supposed to require only Java 1.5, but I may have broken that
> > somewhere along the way.  At one point I did have it running on a
> > Win9x virtual machine but that was a good while ago.  I'll see if I
> > can find out more.
> >
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