[Coco] question about file transfers from PC

[Darren A]

On 8/2/09, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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The four slots in the DriveWire server do not correspond to the four
floppy drives supported by standard Disk Basic.  Each slot represents
a virtual hard drive which has the capacity to hold 256 virtual floppy
disks.  Only one of the virtual hard drives is active at a time.  You
use the DRIVE #n command (the # is required) to specify which virtual
hard drive (server slot) is active.

For example If you mount a typical 35 track DSK file in slot 3 of the
server, you cannot access it using a command like DIR 3.  You must
enter DRIVE #3 to tell the system that server slot 3 is the current
virtual hard drive, then DIR 0 will access the first (or only) virtual
floppy disk in that file.

Darren