[Coco] File transfers over DriveWire between PC and Coco hard disk

[Joel Ewy]

Robert Gault wrote:
> There have been some claims that you need a floppy drive on the Coco 
> to transfer files between a DriveWire mounted image on a PC and a Coco 
> hard drive. That is not correct.
>
> It is easy to set up a RAM disk on a Coco for use with HDBDOS. Drives 
> 2 and 3 become full RAM disk with a 512K Coco, rather than floppy or 
> hard drive "disks" under Basic.
> The content of these drives is stable even after a hard reset with 
> ALT+CTRL+REST.
>
> I have tested the RAM disk code that works with the KEN-TON scsi 
> RGBDOS on a DriveWire HDBDOS system and the RAM disk still works. That 
> means you can have your normal HDBDOS in ROM, load the RAM disk, load 
> HDBDOS DW3, copy files from the PC to the RAM disk, reboot the Coco, 
> start up the RAM disk, and the contents are still available for 
> transfer to your Coco hard drive.

Hi Robert,

Which RAM disk are you using?  Is this one that is generally available?  
I tried out at least a couple different RAM disk programs and they 
stomped on Drivewire, so I've been working on a BASIC program to do some 
Drivewire file management tasks.  If there's a RAM disk that does what I 
need, I might turn my attention to other projects.

JCE

>
> It is much easier running NitrOS-9 as no RAM disk is needed.
>
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