[Coco] Success! Re: Level3 and Drivewire may not work

[Bill Nobel]

Hi Robert,  the best layout for the DW modules I can figure out by the source is dwio & rbdw in common system area among descriptors.  Aaron did warn me though with the development of DW4 he discovered a lot of bugs that remain in this version of Nitros9 (2.0.0) that caused a lot of issues with DW4. These were fixed in the current 3.3.0 source along the way.

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 17, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
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> Bill Nobel wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Bill,
> 
> That was a good idea!
> 
> First thing I tried was placing rbdw in the SCF section with dwio in the RBF section but that gave error 237 RAM full. I then took rbdw and dwio out of both RBF and SCF sections and placed them both in the "SYS" section, section after the second _end in OS9Boot.
> I was able to boot from a real floppy on a Coco3 using Disk Basic 1.1 and access Drivewire disks. That might be good enough for many Coco users but we really need to be able to boot from Drivewire via HDBDOS. So far that has not worked because of the boot_dw module, but more testing needs to be done.
> 
> Robert
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