[Coco] question about file transfers from PC

[Stephen Adolph]

I guess I am understanding why OS-9 seems like the right answer for a
lot of users...no limitations I assume on the structure of the hard
drive?

Regardless, for now I just want to use the standard system I/O wise.
thanks for the info.

Steve

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Darren A<mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/2/09, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>>
>> I don't quite understand why a disk file .DSK can't be loaded into any
>> virtual disk slot.
>>
>> What I'm used to with the 2 emulators, is that you can load a .DSK
>> file into any of the emulated floppies.
>>
> --
>
> The four slots in the DriveWire server do not correspond to the four
> floppy drives supported by standard Disk Basic.  Each slot represents
> a virtual hard drive which has the capacity to hold 256 virtual floppy
> disks.  Only one of the virtual hard drives is active at a time.  You
> use the DRIVE #n command (the # is required) to specify which virtual
> hard drive (server slot) is active.
>
> For example If you mount a typical 35 track DSK file in slot 3 of the
> server, you cannot access it using a command like DIR 3.  You must
> enter DRIVE #3 to tell the system that server slot 3 is the current
> virtual hard drive, then DIR 0 will access the first (or only) virtual
> floppy disk in that file.
>
> Darren
>
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