[Coco] Copy files from Coco-3's physical drives to DW4 virtual disk

[Aaron Wolfe]

You will want to check the contents of those JVC images.  They may not
actually contain any changes made to them.  I really don't think I ever
wrote the code for write support for any format other than plain old dsk.

There is no concept of "formatting" specific to DriveWire, nor is there the
idea of a "720k" disk unless you use some of the advanced settings to
enforce such a thing, which is rarely needed.  Drive Wire doesn't
understand sides or densities or tracks or any of that.

If you configure an OS9 device descriptor for one of the DW drives to match
the attributes of a 720k floppy disk drive, then running the standard OS9
format utility should create an image that has the same number of sectors
as a physical 720k floppy disk would have.  That would be the closest thing
to a "720k" disk image that you could have in drivewire.
 On Aug 8, 2014 3:27 PM, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

> Aaron, it succesfully wrote to 9 identical JVC formatted DW disks.
> The 10th gave the 245 error, the 11th was error free again.
> I repeated to copy the 10th again, this time was no error.
> Ok, how do you suggest to format a 720k DW disk?
> Please be specific, I'm a noob. :)
>
> Kandur
>
> Friday, August 8, 2014, 1:10:03 PM, you wrote:
> > DriveWire does not support writing to JVC format disks.
> >  On Aug 8, 2014 2:51 PM, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:
>
> >> Thank you Gene.
> >> The floppy had only one file, 'part10',
> >> at the end of the copy I got a write error 245,
> >> but 'dir -e' showed identical byte counts on both drives.
> >> Looks, if the whole file was copied, too.
> >> Wondering what caused the error?
> >> See the last photo here:
> >> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=222
>
> >> Kandur
>
> >> Friday, August 8, 2014, 12:08:18 PM, you wrote:
> >> > On Friday 08 August 2014 14:19:55 Kandur did opine
> >> > And Gene did reply:
> >> >> How can I access drive 1 on DW4 from the Coco-3?
> >> >> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=222
>
> >> >> Kandur
>
> >> > dw4 files that look like a disk drive are behind the /x0, /x1, etc rbf
> >> > file descriptors.
>
> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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