[Coco] need drivewire help

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 March 2019 10:00:41 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> Gene, as far as I know, drivewire is still in the same place but Aaron
> maintained the actual release on his google site "CocoCoding"
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
>
So the sourceforge stuff is dead end. I'll see whats ^^^^^^ here then.

And whats there is 4.3.3o which just works, and which it got from 
sourceforge as I had to sign up for a bunch of BS from them to get it, 
if I go down and restart the coco it should all just work again.

So whats with the 4.3.4e?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Mar 27, 2019 7:57 am
> Subject: [Coco] need drivewire help
>
> Greetings all;
>
> Several years ago, in 2012 or so, I setup a 100 megabyte file, and
> mounted it as /x1 on my coco3 nos9 setup, and its held a bunch of
> stuff I wanted to transfer from my coco3's hard drives to my web page.
>
> But something felt wrong with the last drivewire update, so I reverted
> to 4.3.3o, which seemed to be ok and I've used it rather uneventfully
> since.
>
> But somebody last week asked about "find" so I searched /dd and found
> the src file I built it find from all those years ago, s.Find by
> Stephan Goldberg, which would have contained my fixes to make it work
> universally and copied it to this 100MByte ext4 file called
> genes_common.dsk using drivewire.
>
> Trashed the file. I used ded /x1@ to delete it from the root directory
> by zeroing out its entry, but the file structure is still trashed,
> containing a recursive entry for a directory that should not exist.
>
> dcheck can't check it, and a dir -e only gets to the 3rd entry in the
> root directory, so the file is well and truly trashed as an os9
> filesystem image.
>
> Is there anyone here who might be able to help me salvage this, or
> should I delete it and start from scratch at making a new "copy back
> and forth" box that looks like /x1 to the coco3/nos9?
>
> Drivewire seems to have disappeared from sourceforge too??????  Has it
> been moved and I didn't get the memo? The latest I seem to have is
> DriveWire4_4.3.4e, and that one doesn't appear to work. So I'm back on
> 4.3.3o ( I think, my installs consist of unpacking to a new directory,
> and changing the dw4directory link to point at the newly unzipped
> directory.  The About of the running instance says 4.3.30.
>
> Thanks all.
> .
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>