[Coco] Hard disk image

[Stephen Pereira]

I can confirm what David said.  Yes the CoCo3FPGA works with the Becker type Drivewire image.  I just recently changed over to the Drivewire version 3 Becker disk image available on the NitrOS-9 Project site:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/>

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Stephen M. Pereira
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> On Oct 16, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have it working with the Master330.dsk
> via drivewire. Now I just need to figure out
> how to build a hdd image. if I just need to have
> boot floppies for my various use case. so be it
> 
> Speaking of hdd image, what is the maximum size?
> Mathieu
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:01 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The CoCo3FPGA version that has the serial port should be able to use the
>> Becker HDBDOS and the Becker based DriveWire image.  As I do not have a
>> CoCo3FPGA board I can not confirm this, but the Becker port was originally
>> developed on the CoCo3FPGA project and that was the reason the support for
>> this interface was requested on VCC, xroar, and MESS.
>> 
>> +----------+
>> |David Ladd|
>> +----------+
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Barry Nelson <
>> barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok, well now, that is at least two different bootable images, if not
>>> three. VCC can boot from a DriveWire server using the Becker Port, or from
>>> an image directly using the Emu Disk driver. The CoCo3FPGA boots from
>>> DriveWire, not sure about the specifics though. The CoCoSDC uses it's own
>>> boot track, and is unique. I have boot disk images for the CoCoSDC, Emu
>>> Disk, and DriveWire.
>>> A Becker Port image is available here:
>>> http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/nos96809l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk
>>> A regular DriveWire image is here:
>>> http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk
>>> A CoCoSDC image for a physical CoCo3 is here:
>>> http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/nos96809l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk
>>> I can send you an Emu Disk bootable image for VCC without DriveWire if you
>>> want that.
>>> 
>>>> Mathieu Chouinard chouimat at gmail.com
>>>> Fri Oct 16 10:22:30 EDT 2015
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to build a bootable nitros-9 hard disk image, that could be
>>>> used with Vcc 2.0.1, cocosdc and the coco3fpga. Anybody has some
>>>> instructions on how to do it?
>>>> 
>>>> Mathieu
>>>> 
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