[Coco] Level3 and Drivewire may not work

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 16 23:30:07 EST 2014


I think though it might be connected to the SCF/DWIO/RBDW relation. I could be wrong, but it seems Drivewire crosses the bridge between SCF protocol and RBF protocol, to marry the two. Mainly because DW uses serial protocol, but supports random block management.

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Yeah I found the same thing Robert, I tried DW4 with Becker port first thing and found it didn’t boot.  I noticed the same effect on other boots of different Image file formats.  I have converted some of them to be compatible in VCC, but not all.  I can’t figure out why on some of them.  Work perfect in raw Disk basic, but not HDBDos.
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> Bill Nobel
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>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
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>> Having a Level3 boot disk that works with my Coco3, MESS, and VCC, I tried changing the contents of OS9Boot to see if Level3 worked with Drivewire. You can use rb1773 instead of cc3disk so why not use rbdw and dwio?
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>> Well the new OS9Boot, with rbdw, dwio, and /X#, booted Level3 and floppy access still worked. However the system crashed when trying to read /X0. Doesn't look good.
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