[Coco] Drivewire

[Steve Ostrom]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Gault
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 6:53 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire

Steve Ostrom wrote:
> Just a curious question about Drivewire.  Can I have Drivewire connected 
> to my
> Coco3 along with my floppy drives and SCSI HD?  I'm not an OS9 user, but 
> do use
> Cloud-9's HDBDOS in a multipak slot.  I have been archiving thousands of 
> disks,
> and placing them on removable cartridges in my SCSI HD.  My goal would be 
> to
> transfer the data from these cartridges to a PC using DW.  I'm not a 
> hardware
> guy, but feel much more comfortable in the realm of software. (I did write 
> a
> Coco ML program to backup one SCSI cartridge to a second one using my two 
> SCSI
> HDs.  I think I could do the same for DW if I knew how to connect all of 
> these
> together.)  I also just received my SDC cart and georgeous case, in case 
> these
> might help this effort.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> --- Coco_Steve ---
>
>

Steve,

I have a Coco3 and MPI setup with floppies, two scsi hard drives connected 
using
a Ken-Ton interface, a Disto SCII controller, and a Roger Taylor microSD 
card
all working with Drivewire4 via a serial cable.

The only thing preventing hardware of this type from working, is if there is 
a
conflict among I/O bytes for different hardware. With the Disto and Ken-Ton
units, care must be taken to chose the correct SCII control registers.

Robert


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Thanks Bob and Robert for your replies.  Could either of you (or other Coco 
experts on this list) suggest a procedure I could try?  It's been a few 
years since I had my DW3 connected to the 512K Coco.  I would not mind 
copying file by file from SCSI HD to DW3 (that's the only DW I have ever 
tried before).  Once I get this to work, I'll try to automate the process 
with an ML program.  I just need a few pointers to start the process. 
Thanks!

--- Coco_Steve ---