[Coco] Real close with DriveWire 4 on Raspberry Pi, but...

[Joel Ewy]

On 01/17/2014 07:24 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/17/2014 02:36 PM, Juan Castro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe you could try this? http://sourceforge.net/projects/dwlite/
>>>>
>>>>   Looks like a cool project.  Do you have any more documentation or
>>> information about it?
>>>
>> Well, I wrote it. Feel free to ask anything. It was a quick and dirty
>> solution so I could get the RPi to serve disks to the CoCo without
>> screaming in agony. (And mine is one of the earlier ones, 256 MB!) Not
>> having to run the JVM makes ALL the difference in the world.
>>
>> Take a look at the TODO file, if there's anything else you think should be
>> done, please do suggest.
>>
> Its great to have more implementations, but I wonder why the RPi had
> any trouble running the DW4 server (or maybe you only tried running
> the GUI, which does stress the Pi a bit).
>
> FWIW, the DW4 server runs fine (and at full wire speed) on a NSLU2,
> which is a 133Mhz processor and has only 32MB ram.  I can't imagine
> the much, much more powerful Pi struggling with it.
>
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Mine both have 512M, so that probably helps out a lot.  The GUI is a bit 
pokey for some things, like loading up disk images, but it really isn't 
bad, and I'm not complaining.

Juan, does your server do the network stuff, or just disk images?

JCE