[Coco] Drivewire and ADOS...

[Al Hartman]

Well, ADOS is not sold anymore. It doesn't have a website. And, 20 year old 
manuals will not automagically update with a change.

Since this is behavior specific to Drivewire and ADOS, this needs to be in a 
Troubleshooting section of Drivewire. I don't know if there would be a 
problem booting to NitrOS9 on a local floppy using ADOS. I suspect that will 
work fine.

But, to scatter needed information all over the web is not useful to an end 
user. To you, there is a clear demarcation between Drivewire and HDB-DOS. As 
an end user, I see the HDB-DOS wave file as client software for RS-DOS to 
Drivewire. I don't see them as separate. And, the first place common sense 
would tell me to go to find an answer if I had such a problem would be the 
Drivewire site.

It would be useful for end users, and I will send stuff to add to it as I 
find them.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Aaron Wolfe

I agree its good information.  The question is where to store it.  I don't
know of a wiki for ADOS or for HDBDOS.   Which would it fall under?  My
first guess would be in ADOS documentation, actually i suspect the command
itself is already documented, just not this specific instance of its use.

If HDBDOS is now part of the Toolshed project then we could add an hdbdos
section on the toolshed wiki at sourceforge.  Really it seems like hdbdos
should be it's own sourceforge project to me, but I am not involved with
that project so there may be good reasons it isn't am I am just not aware.

On Sep 30, 2013 10:59 AM, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

> I had recommended Drivewire to a Coco user on the Vintage Computer forums,
> as well as subscribing to this list.
>
> He has a Hard Drive Specialists Disk Controller with a Custom ADOS EPROM
> in it. Customized by Hard Drive Specialists.
>
> He was unable to get Drivewire to work. He found that by removing the ROM
> and running the controller without a ROM, it worked. But, that was a lot 
> of
> work, and inconvenient.
>
> Before I could advise him to try it, he figured out on his own from
> reading the ADOS manual I had sent him the link to, to use the DISABLE
> command before loading HDB-DOS.
>
> That worked for him. Problem solved. This should be added to the WIKI
> somewhere.
>
> -[ Al ]-
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