[Coco] DW, My Problem, sure

Luis Fernández luis46coco at hotmail.com
Sun May 6 22:42:01 EDT 2012


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> Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 23:05:32 -0400
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DW, My Problem, sure
> 
> I will take a guess.  Lets say you insert a regular disk image into
> the first drive (actually drive 0), and do DIR on the CoCo:
> 
> You will see the contents of the disk image.  Normal enough.
> 
> Now you insert another disk image into the second drive, and do DIR 1:
> 
> You see a blank disk, not the contents of the image you inserted.  Why?
> 
> If this is indeed the problem, I can explain it.
> 
> This is because of the way HDBDOS historically considers each "disk"
> to be actually a hard drive containing up to 256 disk images.
> When you insert a disk image into drive 0, this by default maps *all*
> drives on the coco to 256 slots inside that single disk image.
> 
> To actually see what is inserted in "drive 1" or "drive 2", you must
> use the command: DRIVE # X  where X is the drive you want to see.
> But, for instance if you do DRIVE # 1: now DIR 0 gives you the first
> disk in the second drive.  It's all a bit bizarre if you're dealing
> with the
> single disk images commonly found online.
> 
> If you are using DW4, you can enable "HDBDOS translation".  This will
> make drive X on the coco == the disk inserted in drive X in DW.
> For using single disk images, this makes life much simpler.
> 
> Here is some documentation:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=Using_DriveWire#HDBDOSMode
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Finally I have drivewire connected, I think I'm the last one, hehe
> >
> >
> >
> > But I have a problem
> >
> > Ok Go DIR1 any disk I put in the server
> >
> > DIR2 sees nothing ..... 255
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
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