[Coco] Success! Re: Level3 and Drivewire may not work

[Bill Pierce]

Robert, that;s good news. Maybe the boot may work better when/if Bill Nobel get's everything up =graded to 3.3.0 standards.
I may mess around with it some later.
BTW, what's the boot order?
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 7:48 pm
Subject: [Coco] Success! Re:  Level3 and Drivewire may not work


Bill Nobel wrote:
> I think though it might be connected to the SCF/DWIO/RBDW relation. I could be 
wrong, but it seems Drivewire crosses the bridge between SCF protocol and RBF 
protocol, to marry the two. Mainly because DW uses serial protocol, but supports 
random block management.
>
> Bill Nobel

Bill,

That was a good idea!

First thing I tried was placing rbdw in the SCF section with dwio in the RBF 
section but that gave error 237 RAM full. I then took rbdw and dwio out of both 
RBF and SCF sections and placed them both in the "SYS" section, section after 
the second _end in OS9Boot.
I was able to boot from a real floppy on a Coco3 using Disk Basic 1.1 and access 

Drivewire disks. That might be good enough for many Coco users but we really 
need to be able to boot from Drivewire via HDBDOS. So far that has not worked 
because of the boot_dw module, but more testing needs to be done.

Robert


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