[Coco] Multipak and Drivewire

[Michael Brant]

No worries.
On May 14, 2015 5:02 PM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Micheal, I don't know much about the CocoSDC, so I'll leave that one to an
> SDC owner to answer. Sorry.
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> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Brant <brant.michael.l at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, May 14, 2015 5:00 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Multipak and Drivewire
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> Bill thanks i shall try your advice.  Another question.  Since i also have
> a
> CoCoSDC I am wondering how that would play nice with my HDBDOS FD502
> disk
> setup--2 5.25 drives.
> On May 14, 2015 4:52 PM, "Bill Pierce via Coco"
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Michael, when using DW, HDBDOS and real
> floppies, you issue a "DRIVEOFF"
> > cmd which disables dw drives 0-3. This does
> not disable drives 4-255! You
> > can copy real floppies to and partition from
> 4-255. If you need to get them
> > to 0-3, let's say you want to copy a real disk
> to dw slot 0. Use DRIVEOFF,
> > copy the disk 0 to disk 4. Then issue DRIVEON,
> copy disk 4 to disk 0.
> > In fact, I always leave disk 4 as a temp disk for
> copying.
> > Now, there are other forms of the "DRIVEOFF/ON" cmd.
> > DRIVEOFF2 will
> disable dw drives0-2 and leave 3-255
> > DRIVEOFF0 will disable dw drive0 and
> leave 1-255
> > Any combo or driveooff 0-3 will work the same.
> >
> > Also in DW, you
> can issue DRIVE #x where 'x' is any number from 0-255,
> > which will change
> "partitions" and put you system on another DW slot. You
> > cannot copy from one
> dw drive to another, drives being the DW slots, disks
> > being the partitions.
> >
> There has been a lot of confussion from day one with DW due to the double
> > use
> of "DRIVE"
> > DRIVE1 will set "disk 1" as the default
> > DRIVE#1 will set DW drive
> slot as default and has nothing to do with the
> > above, but will retain the
> above setting on the new drive (DRIVE1).
> >
> > I hope this helps. The best
> resource is the HDBDOS User's Manual on Cloud
> > 9's website.
> > Yeah, I know...
> Download HDBDOS from here, the manual from there, DW from
> > over there, the DW
> Wiki is over yonder, and Nitros9 is waaay over there.
> > Bouncing all over the
> net to get one working package.
> > It took me 3 months to find everything and get
> it working. I hadn't
> > subscribed to the list at that time so I had few to ask
> how it was done.
> >
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> >
> > Bill Pierce
> > "Charlie stole the handle, and the
> train it won't stop going, no way to
> > slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro
> Tull
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> Michael Brant <brant.michael.l at gmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Thu, May 14, 2015 4:13 pm
> > Subject:
> [Coco] Multipak and Drivewire
> >
> >
> > I have an MPI, I also have a CoCoSDC, along
> with two FD502s (one stock and
> > one
> > with HDB-DOS.)
> > Both the SDC-DOS and
> HDB-DOS allow me to use Drivewire (which I
> > connect to
> > DW3 on my Mac Pro.)
> >
> The question is this how (if possible) does the
> > system assign disk numbers
> >
> and drive numbers?
> >
> > So far I have used the drive
> > function but when doing
> so, I it seems to
> > cutoff access to the DW and only
> > access physical
> disks.
> >
> > I am fairly new to DW and MPI usage, my old CoCo days
> > did not have
> an MPI.
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