[Coco] Drive Wire large virtual disks

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Wed Nov 3 21:19:58 EDT 2010


Mike Rowen wrote:
> I have NitrOS9 up and running via DW. I would like to create a large virtual
> drive for NitrOS9. Does this require DW4 and do I need to create a new
> device in OS9 to access large files? I've worked with DW4 a bit. Having
> telnet is very cool. :) I'm pretty rusty on OS9, but its coming back little
> by little. Your help appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> -Mike Rowen

You don't need DW4 to access extra large disks as DW3 will work quite well.

Depending on the size and type of virtual drive you want to use, you may not 
need a new driver. You can just use the command dmode to increase the number of 
tracks and sides of one of the descriptors.



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