[Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?

[Kandur]

Thank you Aaron, Gene and Bill.

Aaron, you wrote:
"Maybe you could describe what the goal is, I'm sure someone knows how to
accomplish the end results if they are possible."
My PC is new, it has no FD controller, hence no FD drives, but lots of ram.
My original, 128k Coco-3 has 2 physical floppy drives connected to it,
with HDB-DOS in a FD controller, 
The goal is to make a real boot floppy for the coco, that leaves
more free ram, then the repo .dsk images do (about 24k).
This can be achieved by editing the bootlist, leaving out the graphic,
sound, joystick, etc. modules, making the Term to default to the Coco's
bitbanger serial port, configured to 9600 baud, xon/xoff with a shell.

"You can access both DriveWire drives and real floppy drives on the *same*
coco, whether real or emulated, and whether in BASIC or OS9, so it would
seem there is little reason to need access to one coco's drive from another."
Well, there is a good reason. The virtual Coco (Vcc) has lots of ram,
one could easily edit the bootlist, os9gen and cobbler a new boot image
on it. On the real Coco with 24k of free ram it is impossible to say the least.
I'd like to make the above described lean, bootfloppy image on the virtual
Coco, and write it on a boot floppy with my floppy drive, connected to the 
real coco. 

Kandur

Monday, July 7, 2014, 8:59:29 AM, you wrote:
> Bill, what I wanted was, to access physical floppy drives on the Coco,
> while running Nitro OS-9 on VCC. Drive ON/OFF don't seem to work
> on the Coco's physical drives from OS-9.

> Kandur

> Monday, July 7, 2014, 8:45:54 AM, you wrote:

>> Kandur, if you are referring to the DRIVEON DRIVEOFF commands, these are
>> exclusive to HDBDOS, so if the emulator is running HDBDOS and the emulator
>> supports real floppies, then yes. Or in the case there's "emulated" floppies, then it will turn those off/on.
>> When "on" the HDBDOS/RGBDOS RSDOS drives 0-3 on a 255 disk partitioned VHD
>> are "on". When "off" then drives 0-3 will read/write to the real/emulated system (emulator) floppies.
>>  

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
>> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Mon, Jul 7, 2014 11:34 am
>> Subject: [Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?


>> Needed when the PC has no floppy drives.
>> Any other Coco emulator can do that?

>> Kandur

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