[Coco] Using HDB-DOS for DriveWire 3

[N8WQ]

Hi Tim,
I forgot to mention that I am using the HDB-DOS for DriveWire 3 ROM and 
not a actual physical hard drive, sorry about that. The "O" stands for 
Orville. My father's name is also Orville. It sounds like you have a 
nice system there.

O. Alan Jones

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Tim Fadden wrote:
> Alan,
>
> The HD image supplied has nitros9 on it already. I have a HDB-DOS rom, 
> only for the drive wire access on one of my machines. On the other 
> that has 2 scsi drives, I created a boot disk with the drivewire 
> drivers and descriptors.  I used dmode to on two of the dw descriptors 
> to make them the same size as my hard drives.  One 105meg, and the 
> other 207meg.  using the tools I created two images of the proper 
> number of sectors, and mounted them.  Now I can use dsave to backup my 
> hard drives to the DW3 server, and restore etc.  Works great!  I also 
> created a floppy boot disk with /x0 as /DD!  Start the boot from 
> floppy, /dd takes over, and now I am running off of DW3.  Great for 
> setting up a new hard drive on the coco. The choices are endless.
>
> Tim Fadden
>
> P.S. Whats the O for?  My dad's name was Orville.  ;-)
>
> N8WQ wrote:
>> Today I started to delve into using HDB-DOS for DriveWire 3. I 
>> actually got out the DriveWire 3 user manual today and read it! Duh! :)
>>
>> I didn't realize that I can have 4 virtual hard drives, each with 256 
>> virtual disk images! Boisy, this is amazing software. You did a great 
>> job!
>>
>> Is it possible to also have a NitrOS-9 virtual hard drive to use with 
>> DriveWire 3 WinServer?
>>
>> O. Alan Jones
>>
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