[Coco] drivewire surprise? Re: Chromasette

[Boisy Pitre]

On May 31, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Steve Ostrom wrote:

> Boisy, if I typed DRIVEOFF in order to access the floppy drive on  
> my Coco, but then typed COPY "EXAMPLE.BAS:0" TO "EXAMPLE.BAS:10"  
> would that work to transfer any file from my Coco to the PC?  Will  
> other regular HDB-DOS commands work the same way with DriveWire's  
> special HDB-DOS?  The manual only mentions the command DRIVE#n, so  
> I thought that this special version of DriveWire HDB-DOS was very  
> limited in transferring programs, but worked really well to  
> actually run Coco programs that were .dsk images on the PC. This is  
> really cool !!

Steve,

HDB-DOS for DriveWire implements all of the same commands that HDB- 
DOS for SCSI or IDE does.  What you propose above will work just fine.

> Is there also a BACKUP 0 TO 10 command, for example, to copy an  
> entire floppy drive 0 to the PC virtual drive 10?  Just wishing !!

Yes of course.  It's so easy that I'm surprised you didn't just try  
it. :)

> Remember when I hand-assembled my HDB-DOS harddrive backup ML  
> program a few years ago?  It works great to backup every file from  
> one Coco HD with 256 virtual floppy drives to a second Coco  
> harddrive of the same size much more quickly than BASIC could do,  
> which takes forever.  Would a modification of that ML program work  
> with DriveWire, so that I could copy everything from my Coco  
> harddrive to the PC?  I'm guessing not.

The program you wrote should work without modification under HDB-DOS  
for DriveWire.  HDB-DOS is HDB-DOS, whether it is talking to a  
DriveWire server, a SCSI drive or an IDE drive.  It just works!

> Thanks!
>
> -- Steve --
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boisy Pitre"  
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> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] drivewire surprise? Re: Chromasette
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>
>> Willard, et al,
>>
>> The COPY command most certainly does work under DriveWire.  I'm  
>> not  sure why Steve hasn't thought about using it but it would  
>> certainly  work to copy his files.
>>
>> You mean to tell me that YOU haven't bought a copy of DriveWire?   
>> How disappointing! :)
>>
>> On May 31, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:
>>
>>>> From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
>>>> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:18:43 -0500
>>>
>>>> I would LOAD each file from the Coco floppy drive, then SAVE
>>>> each file to the PC virtual disk.
>>>
>>> What, COPY doesn't work under drivewire?  How disappointing.
>>>
>>> Willard
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