[Coco] Drive Wire 4 woe's

[Aaron Wolfe]

It sounds like most of your situation is just misunderstanding about how
drive numbers work in HDBDOS.  Don't feel bad, it is confusing enough that
I actually added a special setting to make things work more like people
expect.

Long story short, turn on the "HDBDOS mode" option in DW.  Drives 1-3 will
work the way you'd expect.

-Aaron
On Sep 21, 2014 10:01 PM, "Chris Ahrendt" <chrisahrendt at bellsouth.net>
wrote:

> Ok I tried posting this on the facebook group and not sure people got what
> my problem is so let me try here....
>
> Ok need some help....
> I bought my cable finally from Cloud 9.... and after determining that the
> serial adapter from china was crap and went back to the one on my docking
> station I sort of got drivewire 4 to work.... I say sort of... here is the
> issue:
>
> If I use hdbdos-20130922 and use the hdbdw4cc3 wave first when I cloadm
> the wave says its actually hdbdw3cc3. But when I exec it says its version
> 1.4 for the cc3.. so ok... have everything connected up have 4 floppy disk
> images loaded on DW4 on my server in slot 0 - 3 ...
>
> Looking in the console for DW4 I get it saying there is garbage coming
> over the wire.. and it prints the character... and I get an IO error on the
> coco. So I go check the settings... (I used the wizard to set it up)
> everything looks ok.. So then I reboot the coco.. and load hdbdw3cc3. exec
> and then do a Dir... and I type DIR on the coco3 and for drive 0 I get what
> is mounted in drive 0 on the server. When I switch to drive 1 - 3 and do a
> Dir I get nothing other than it is blank which is not the case.. Right now
> I am just trying to load floppies not a hard drive image. What ultimately I
> am trying to do is put a blank dsk file and move all my 51/4" physical
> floppies over to the server and to virtual floppies.
>
> Now I go into DW4 and load the rom code from there.. its version 1.2 and
> same result as above where only the Dir 0 works... but when I try to load
> it gives me a file type error...
>
> HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> I would like to be able to back my floppies up to the server and also get
> the stuff I have on the server as well.... what have I configured wrong or
> am doing wrong?
>
> Hopefully this is clear enough to understand what I am trying to do...
>
> Chris
>
>
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