[Coco] DW, My Problem, sure

[Aaron Wolfe]

The ability to view disk contents is not in DW4 yet, I haven't
finished the interface.  I hope it will be done in the next week or so
though


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank Aaron
> ok
> and Pictureview?
>
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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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