[Coco] DriveWire and many disks

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:48:56 -0200
Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Java in my DW machine was borked, so I  installed a new OS (CentOS 6)
> and proceeded to install DW4 server.  Downloaded the 4.3.3 version
> from the Google Code site, fired it up, selected CoCo3 config, turned
> on my CoCo 3 with my trusty HDB-DOS 1.4 DW3 COCO 3 ROM (don't ask me
> to run a DW4 ROM; such a thing NEVER worked with me) and it read the
> virtual disk (DECB) just OK. Ran SockMaster' s DK even. OK, let's
> mount other DSKs as drives 1, 2 etc.
> 
> THAT didn't work. The DW server registered reads on drive 0 whenever I
> tried to read drives 1 or 2. Activating debug, it seemed the client
> was trying to read sectors out of range. Mmmm.
> 
> Then  I concatenated the three .DSK's into one and mounted THAT as
> drive 0. Lo and behold, all three disks appear now as drives 0, 1, and
> 2! Wot gives?

	That's the way it works. If you want separate files to be
drives, turn on the HDBDOS mode.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=Using_DriveWire#HDBDOSMode

Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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