[Coco] Level3 and Drivewire may not work

[Richard E Crislip]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:48:49 -0600
Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ha, just had a thought, DW4’s modules combined could be called NFM
> ( or network file manager) in combination.  In a network sense you
> can have both SCF and RBF calls, that can happen, at any time.  DW4
> seems to handle it, but there seems to be some incompatibility with
> L3.
> 
> Bill Nobel
> 
> > On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> > 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
> > 
> >> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> Bill Nobel
> >> 
> >>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 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?
> >>> 
> >>> 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.
> >>> 
> >>> Robert
> >>> 
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ALRIGHT!!!! 8-) What is SCF and RBF. There oh so many explanations of
SCF on Google, but which one is being used here. TIA