[Coco] I've got DriveWire 4 installed

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Sun May 28 23:14:19 EDT 2017


Thank you Bill, Barry and Robert. I already have the emudsk disk image, so
I just merged the H0.dd and EmuDsk.dr files together and put them in the
CMDS directory on the boot disk in DW. It works, so now I have access to
the vhd image.

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 6:21 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Wayne Campbell wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Robert. That's done, so now how do I access my harddisk image? I
>> did a mdir and see that /h0 and emudsk are not there. I'm guessing this
>> means I have to build a custom boot?
>>
>>
> Wayne,
>
> Yes, unfortunately there probably aren't many default .vhds for mounting
> on VCC which will access DW4 disks nor disks for DW4 that once booted have
> access to the default VCC hard drives. So, you will need to build a custom
> boot file for best/safest access to both DW drives and VCC hard drives.
>
> There is one other thing you can try which may work but is not the best
> approach. :) You can merge emudsk and h0 into a single file in your CMDS
> directory. Set the merged file for execution ex.
> attr VCCvhd e pe
> and after booting from the DW4 disk, load the merged file however it is
> named.
> You should then be able to read the OS-9 partition of the .vhd mounted on
> VCC.
>
> Now EmuDsk and H0 will not be on the nightly build Becker disk. You will
> need to get those from your VCC .vhd or I can send them to you. The merged
> file will need to be transferred to the DW4 boot disk.
>
> I just checked and Bill Pierce at
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/the-color-compute
> r-drivewire4-hdbdos-nitros9-starter-kit
> in one of the VCC .vhd drives should have both the EmuDsk and DW driver
> sets installed.
>
>
> Robert
>
>
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