[Coco] nitros9 proposal - cache sector 0?

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 12:35:59 EST 2014


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 January 2014 12:26:29 Aaron Wolfe did opine:
>
>> Interesting to know other drivers have done that, gives me hope there
>> is a reasonably safe way.
>> I would also not cache writes, that is a bit dicey even for my taste :)
>> Thanks for the head up, maybe I can find a one of those drivers and
>> take a look at their logic... at least if I implement it and it goes
>> all wrong I could sort of blame someone else in that case.
>> One wrinkle is that while the DW server knows about disk changes, the
>> CoCo itself really doesn't.  Have to think about that one.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, L. Curtis Boyle
>
> One of the reasons its best to cd all shells away from a drivewire image,
> before changing that image, that way the data collected is properly updated
> in the coco drive tables when you cd back to what looks like the same
> location.

Maybe I should implement a "disk changed notification thing"
regardless of any caching?
I very rarely change disks on my nitros9 system so maybe I've missed
an annoyance that can be squashed?



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