[Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Sat Nov 29 07:42:44 EST 2014


On Saturday 29 November 2014 01:59:27 Aaron Wolfe did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Nov 28, 2014 10:22 AM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > So far, there is one MAJOR disadvantage to Level 3..... The
> > drivewire4
> 
> drivers will not function. The reason being the drivewire sits on the
> "line" as it is an RBF driver with SCF functions. and cannot be
> seperated.
> 
> > <y question is.. could create another RBF module, renamed to "DW4" or
> 
> something (same for SCF), then move ALL the dw drivers out to another
> space. How much is DW tied to RBF? I know it's tied heavily to SCF.
> 
> The SCF, RBF, and clock functionality of Drivewire is already split
> into separate modules that do not communicate with each other. 
> However, all three of these share a dependency on the common "DW sub"
> module that provides the low level serial communication.  This common
> module will need to be available to both the rbf and SCF address space
> (and the clock if that's made into a separate area).  So long as that
> is done, there should not be a problem.

Is it sufficient that these modules (please name them) are located in the 
main memory?

Thanks Aaron.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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