[Coco] DriveWire netdisk interface

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Aaron,

Do you have an estimate on when the shell access from the Internet will be complete and working?  I'm anxious to give it a whirl.

Boisy

On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:31 AM, John W. Linville
> <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:04:12PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>> I did a few tests with fusedav and apache just now.  Seems to work
>>> pretty OK just to mount a DAV share in your local filesystem, then use
>>> regular DriveWire to give an image on that share to the CoCo.  Maybe
>>> some excessive read/writes (and the entire disk image each time),  and
>>> had a couple weird things happen, but probably more of issues with
>>> fusedav, apache, or just the way DriveWire talks to the local disk.
>>> Probably could be optimized.
>>> 
>>> So.. as it turns out, there is really no point in having netdisk,
>>> since you can just do this with exisiting tools :)
>> 
>> Well, sorry about the loss of your project...at least you still
>> have the serial ports and Internet modem and...(I'm sure there is
>> something...) :-)
>> 
> 
> Yes, lots of things to play with :)
> 
> Don't be sorry!  As a wise man recently told me, the only real reason
> to write code for the CoCo these days is the pleasure of seeing your
> code run.  I spent a couple hours writing this, it ran, and I enjoyed
> it :)
> 
> -Aaron
> 
>> John
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