[Coco] An HDBDOS DW4 poll

Christopher Smith csmith at wolfram.com
Mon Sep 23 23:20:35 EDT 2013


Nothing yet, but I'd be tempted to do 2.  No point in directly twiddling values in memory when you can just let the server straighten things out for you.  For Drivewire.

Of course, for physical disks, the answer would be more difficult.  On the one hand, I'm tempted to eventually set up a mass storage device with partitioning, but on the other hand I don't like the idea that each different size of device would need what amounts to basically a different ROM configuration, and I also don't like the idea of still having to boot from a floppy, as seems to be common with single-partition hard drives with only an OS-9 volume, though I may be mistaken there...

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:00:08 PM
> Subject: [Coco] An HDBDOS DW4 poll
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> This info would be helpful.
> 
> Bill Pierce
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