[Coco] An HDBDOS DW4 poll

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 22:55:02 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In writing the tutorial on setting up and using drivewire, Ihave a question/poll for all hdbdos/dw users
> It's about setting the offset for partitions in HDBDOS
>
> When you are using hdbdos under DW do you...
>
> 1. Use RSDOS/OS9 partitioned VHDs with the offset poke directly into the hdbdos rom
>
> 2. Use RSDOS/OS9 partitioned VHDs with the offset set in th DW server's "Drive Parameters"
>
> 3. Use only single partition VHDs for RSDOS and OS9 with no offsets
>
> 4. Just use floppy disk images because you never can figure out the offsets for partitions or know nothing about them

>From my conversations with users, I think the most common usage is 4,
or really:
5 . Just use floppy disk images because I don't have any images with
more than one disk or partition in them.



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