[Coco] So, how do I make Drivewire go?

[Christopher Smith]

Perhaps, though if I remember the thread correctly he's got a CoCo 3 and I was trying to get it to go on a CoCo 1.  I have considered trying it on the 3 just to see if it works there, since there's always a chance that something strange is happening with the CoCo 1 setup.  

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher R. Hawks" <chawks at dls.net>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 2:35:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] So, how do I make Drivewire go?
> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:27:21 -0500 (CDT)
> Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since everyone else is talking about it, I thought I'd write in
> > about
> > my experience with Drivewire last week.  I thought I'd set up
> > Drivewire and get the CoCo actually doing something.  Pulled the
> > HDBDOS WAV file for the CoCo 1 from the cloud-9 web page.  Also
> > installed the Drivewire 4 server on my Linux box and the MacOS X
> > Drivewire 3 server on a different machine, just in case.  The
> > cable,
> > as far as I can tell, is correct.  I made it after this diagram:
> > http://www.mediafire.com/view/c91gj67kw7q6yzu/CoCo_DriveWire_3_Serial_Cable.pdf
> > 
> > Anyway, I load up either Drivewire server, tell it to serve some
> > floppy images, load HDBDOS off cassette, and everything looks ok
> > but
> > the only thing I can get HDBDOS to tell me about any disk device is
> > "I/O Error."  It flashes lights on the serial interface when it
> > tries
> > to access the disk, but the server doesn't seem to do anything
> > useful
> > in response.  I'm afraid it's been a couple of days, but I remember
> > seeing a lot of OP_NOP in the log.  Am I missing something obvious
> > here?  How does one debug this stuff?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> 
> 	Maybe Chad H. can give a step by step account of how he got it
> running. While it is still fresh in his mind.
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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