[Coco] Level3 and Drivewire may not work

[Richard E Crislip]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:15:25 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 December 2014 22:04:40 Richard E Crislip did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:48:49 -0600
> > 
> > Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ha, just had a thought, DW4’s modules combined could be called
> > > NFM ( or network file manager) in combination.  In a network
> > > sense you can have both SCF and RBF calls, that can happen, at
> > > any time.  DW4 seems to handle it, but there seems to be some
> > > incompatibility with L3.
> > > 
> > > Bill Nobel
> > > 
> > > > On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> > > > 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
> > > > 
> > > >> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >> 
> > > >> Yeah I found the same thing Robert, I tried DW4 with Becker
> > > >> port first thing and found it didn’t boot.  I noticed the
> > > >> same effect on other boots of different Image file formats.  I
> > > >> have converted some of them to be compatible in VCC, but not
> > > >> all.  I can’t figure out why on some of them.  Work perfect
> > > >> in raw Disk basic, but not HDBDos.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Bill Nobel
> > > >> 
> > > >>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Robert Gault
> > > >>> <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Having a Level3 boot disk that works with my Coco3, MESS, and
> > > >>> VCC, I tried changing the contents of OS9Boot to see if Level3
> > > >>> worked with Drivewire. You can use rb1773 instead of cc3disk
> > > >>> so why not use rbdw and dwio?
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Well the new OS9Boot, with rbdw, dwio, and /X#, booted Level3
> > > >>> and floppy access still worked. However the system crashed
> > > >>> when trying to read /X0. Doesn't look good.
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Robert
> > 
> > ALRIGHT!!!! 8-) What is SCF and RBF. There oh so many explanations
> > of SCF on Google, but which one is being used here. TIA
> 
> For us, it is Sequential Character File, and Random Block File.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Gene Bob, and Bill, Thank you for taking the time to help me be less
ignorant.

Merry Christmas

Richard