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

[Boisy Pitre]

Frank,

My guss is that this would work.  If you have HDB-DOS DriveWire and  
HDB-DOS IDE in two different banks of the flash on your SuperIDE, you  
could simply POKE &HFF59 the appropriate bank, reset the CoCo and  
reload the RAM disk software.

Robert, are you using the RAM disk software that is on the HDB-DOS  
software disk?  I know we include one, but I haven't ran it in so  
long.  And frankly I never thought about it being an intermediary  
device between IDE/SCSI/DW3.

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
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On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:

>
> Can you try creating a ram disk under the version of hdb-dos needed  
> for
> Superide support and then load the drivewire version of hdb-dos and  
> see it
> the ram disk is intact?
>
> Frank
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:20:13AM -0400, 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.
>>
>> It is much easier running NitrOS-9 as no RAM disk is needed.
>>
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