[Coco] X4,X5,X6,X7

[coco at jechar.ca]

Thanks for the Info I will just plan to make due with four.
255 not necessary.
Eight is Enough

I would love to see a BOOTable Linux maybe something lite like Peperment
set up with ToolShed and OVCC and PyDriveWire setup  as an updated 
starter
kit.

Why PyDriveWire instead of the older but more capable Java based 
DriveWire ?
Well the problem is that recent changes Oracle made to Java render 
DriveWire
incompatible. And that cannot be solved by bundling with the older 
version of
Java because the Oracle licence dose not allow you to bundle Java with a 
product
without paying Oracle big $$$ and in the case of wanting to use an out 
of date
version signing a liability waver. Python on the other hand just works 
and is
totally open source so can be bundled.

Myself I use both PyDriveWire and the Java version, only because when I 
realized
that DriveWire was now broke in my laptop I made sure to PIN the java 
version
on my Pi's so they would not get updated and I could continue to use 
them.
On the laptop I did not have a backup and had to give up on the older 
version
of DriveWire and move on to PyDriveWire.

Charlie.

On 2021-03-06 06:54, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> I put the starter kits together and that's a custom build of NitrOS9.
> You have to change the number of devices in the "DW4DEFS" file before
> building NitrOS9. I hope to do an updated version of the starter kits
> soon with the latest VCC and EoU NitrOS9.
> BTW, DW4 will actually support up to 255 drives (theoretically)!!
> There's just not enough memory in NitrOS9 to support that many drivers 
> LOL
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco at jechar.ca
> To: Coco List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 5, 2021 9:53 pm
> Subject: [Coco] X4,X5,X6,X7
> 
> The Vcc Kit supports Eight Drive wire devices but stock Nitro only four
> does anyone know how to get eight drivewire devices in stock nitro ?
> 
> Charlie.
> 
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