[Coco] question about file transfers from PC

[Stephen Adolph]

Ah, ok that's great.  Then I can go with HDB-DOS as a typical use.

I don't quite understand why a disk file .DSK can't be loaded into any
virtual disk slot.

What I'm used to with the 2 emulators, is that you can load a .DSK
file into any of the emulated floppies.

I suppose this detail must be in the docs for HDB-DOS.  I'll start reading.

great news!

Steve

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Darren A<mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/2/09, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If I understand the drivewire product,
>>
>> I need to have a switchable EEPROM containing the HDB-DOS image, and
>> standard DOS, in order to use drivewire AND my floppies.
>>
>
> No.  HDB-DOS for DriveWire allows you to use both.  For example, if
> you have two floppy drives (drives 0 and 1), you can enter the command
> DRIVE OFF 1.  This tells HDB-DOS that drives 0 and 1 are real floppy
> drives and drives 2-255 are virtual disks in the currently selected
> slot on the server. This also prevents you from from being able to
> access virtual disks 0 and 1. Entering DRIVE ON disables real floppy
> access completely and allows you access virtual disks 0-255.
>
> An unfortunate side effect of this implementation is that when you
> want to copy data between a real floppy and a virtual disk, the
> virtual disk number must be greater than the highest real floppy drive
> number which you have enabled. This means you can't copy directly
> between real drive 0 and a typical DSK file which contains only a
> single virtual disk. The work-around for this problem is to first copy
> virtual disk 0 to a higher numbered virtual disk and then enable the
> real floppy drive(s).
>
> That should make it as clear as mud  :)
>
> Darren
>
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