[Coco] Drivewire in Nitros9 on SDC Broken.

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Sat Dec 19 14:32:42 EST 2020


Could you email me the file directly so I can try it.
My email address is coco at jechar.ca

On 2020-12-19 14:56, Robert Gault wrote:
> I just downloaded the same file and it does have rbdw and dwio. It
> also boots over DW4 on my CoCo3.
> 
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> 
>   On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 11:00 AM, Bill Pierce via
> Coco<coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:   I don't see how it works at all.
> "dwio" is missing and DW4 will not work without it.
> 
> Bill P.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco at jechar.ca
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2020 9:46 am
> Subject: [Coco] Drivewire in Nitros9 on SDC Broken.
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell the drivewire modules that ship
> with the latest  NOS9_6809_L2_v030300_coco3_cocosdc.dsk
> dated  03/07/2020 23:56 are broken I could not get drivewire to work on
> my system with them but when I
> replaced those modules with modules cerca: 2018 that I
> had successfully used on my SuperIDE system everything worked fine. For
> reference here is my module directory
> transferred to this email via mdir >/p where p is the
> drivewire printer and drivewire was run on a Java Host.
> 
>     Module Directory at 23:56:21
> REL        Boot        Krn        KrnP2      IOMan      Init
> RBF        rbdw3      dw3        X0          X1          X2
> X3          RBSuper    llcocosdc  B00T        sd0C        sd0D
> sd0R        SD1        DD          MRAM        R0          SCF
> VTIO        KeyDrv      JoyDrv      SndDrv      CoGrf      Term
> W          W1          W2          W3          W4          W5
> W6          W7          W8          scdwp      p          PipeMan
> Piper      Pipe        Clock      Clock2      GrfDrv      Shell
> Date        DeIniz      Echo        Iniz        Link        Load
> Save        Unlink      MDir
> 
> note #1: rbdw3 dw3 x0 x1 x2 x3 scdwp & p are the 2018 drivewire
>           modules that make the system work.
> Charlie
> PS:
> note #2: /B00T /sd0C /sdoD and /sd0R replace  /sd0 to support
>         a multi-partition disk image they have nothing to do
>         with the drivewire and are /B00T a floppy disk image for
>         booting the system. /sd0C a 128M Hard disk image for dd
>         /sd0D a 40M Hard disk image data drive and
>         /sd0R a backup of /B00T for restore purposes each at
>         different offsets so they do not overlap.
> 
> 
> 
> On 2020-12-17 21:44, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>> Yes that is loaded but still does not work does the order
>> in the boot file matter if so where should dwio be?
>> 
>> On 2020-12-17 22:37, David Ladd wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 4:34 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have downloaded
>>>> 
>>>> NOS9_6809_L2_v030300_coco3_cocosdc.dsk  NitrOS-9/6809 Level
>>>> 2      4608k  03/07/2020 23:56        18432  CoCo SDC
>>>> 
>>>> It boots fine on my CoCoSDC
>>>> BUT
>>>> There are modules for drive wire included and I used EZGen to add
>>>> rbdw,
>>>> x0, x1 etc.
>>>> and these items show up when I do an mdir
>>>> but when I do a
>>>>         dir /x0
>>>> I get
>>>>         error 221 module not found
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Did you also make sure to add the dwio module for your interface you
>>> are
>>> using?
>>> 
>>> dwio.sb is for the bitbanger
>>> dwio_rs232pak.sb is for the Deluxe RS-232 Program Pak.
>>> 
>>> If you are just planning on using the bitbanger cable then you need 
>>> to
>>> make
>>> sure to have dwio.sb loaded in as well.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>   is there something wrong with 
>>>> NOS9_6809_L2_v030300_coco3_cocosdc.dsk
>>>>   I have added drive wire to systems such as Superide in the past
>>>> using
>>>> the same method
>>>>   and it worked fine so I don't think I made a mistake editing the
>>>> OS9Boot.
>>>> 
>>>> Charlie
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> David Ladd
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