[Coco] Drivewire/Superdriver feature request, and questions

[David Gettle]

OK, I'll give it a try with VCC and drivewire tonight. (I have some
soldering to do on the CoCo3 to get it working again...)

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're using Linux or some *nix like OS, you should be able to "insert"
> the device node in drivewire and talk directly to SCSI devices assuming the
> logical sectors are just linear data like a floppy disk or hard drive is.
> You could also copy the sectors off a device into an image file with a tool
> like dd on linux or win32diskimage on windows and then insert that image
> into a DriveWire drive.  You might need to mess with os9 device descriptors
> to make os9 believe the "disk" is at least as big as the image has sectors,
> but that should be all.  I haven't done this with zip drives, but have with
> CF cards and hard drives.
>  On May 4, 2015 6:11 PM, "David Gettle" <david17361 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's my request...
> >
> > Be able to attach and access both SCSI and IDE drives and use them with
> > Superdriver to transfer files from SCSI media to IDE media.
> >
> > and/or
> >
> > Be able to assign a windows removable drive to drivewire for use by the
> > CoCo or an emmulator running NitrOS9 and be able to read native
> > OS-9/Nitros9 disk formats
> >
> > The reason for this is I have all of my OS9 (level1 and two software,
> that
> > I purchased, as well as programs I wrote in C and Basic09 on a OS-9
> > formatted IOMEGA Zip 100 disk, and on a large quantity of 3.5 inch disks.
> > (about 25 meg worth of software and data) that I want to transfer to the
> > 128mb CF cards I have plugged into my IDE card. But I really don't want
> to
> > spend several weeks swapping floppies and having to re-sort all that
> stuff
> > out again, it's sorted on the Zip disk. I would like to be able to boot
> the
> > machine with the drives attached and just dsave from the SCSI Zip disk
> to a
> > CF card, and let the CoCo do the work.
> >
> > OR
> >
> > can someone tell me how to get a CoCo3 to boot drivewire and SCSI Zip100
> > from floppy only and create enough virtual disks to transfer all this
> > stuff.
> >
> > I have about a dozen Zip100 disks that I can use.
> >
> > I did his when I first got the SCSI card and need to re-do it because the
> > SCSI drive I was using as H0 crashed, Mark no longer has the
> configuration
> > files for the SCSI system I had and doesn't have the time to re-create it
> > (Honestly I wouldn't expect him too.)
> >
> > I have 3 128MB CF cards, I intend to leave the one I got with the system
> > unaltered in the event I mess something up, use one as a working drive,
> and
> > the third as a backup drive for the work drive. I intend to boot the CoCo
> > from Floppy then access the solid state drives (possibly using the Zip100
> > as a secondary backup drive) now that a newer NITROS9 distro is on the
> site
> > than what I have on the CF I received with the IDE card.
> >
> > I typically use a mix of Nitros9, level2 and my own command replacements
> I
> > have a program I wrote in C I call MKTREECOPY that does a recursive file
> > count for each level of a directory tree, creates an alphabetically
> sorted
> > copy of the tree with the directory entries at the beginning of each
> > directory file and 10% more directory entries than the number of entries
> in
> > the directory tree being duplicated on all levels. During this process it
> > creates a file that has the names and file counts for all sub-directories
> > in the tree. Then it uses the data file to create the new empty directory
> > structure.  Once the new directory structure is created it deletes the
> data
> > file, then calls dsave to copy the files from the source directory to the
> > destination directory.
> >
> > Once I have my system up and running again I may do a re-write of this to
> > eliminate the DSAVE call.
> >
> > Having more than two hard drives on a system is great for developing
> tools
> > that do disk operations, and is the main reason I would like to be able
> to
> > use both IDE and SCSI without a reboot. Using floppy drives for
> developing
> > disk utilities takes too much time.
> >
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