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

[Juan Castro]

For now just disk images, plus the Get Time and Print functions. This is
the spec I used:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Support/DriveWire%203%20Specification.pdf




On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> 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
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