[Coco] Drivewire help needed

[Tim Fadden]

  You must use disk images that are designed to run nitros9/drive wire.

Specific drivers are needed in the os9 kernel for drive wire to work.  
Look at the website where nitros9 is, and there is a daily build section 
that has nitros9, and some games designed to work with drivewire.
p.s. I don't remember the url, but check past messages as someone just 
gave the site a few days ago.


Tim

On 10/18/2010 2:45 PM, Jeremy Michea wrote:
> Strange that I've never seen these messages before today. Nothing ever 
> showed up in that log window before.
>
> Would you happen to know why drivewire wouldn't load games like Zenix 
> (just goes to a black screen and nothing) or any game that uses a 
> "DOS" command. I get an OS9 boot prompt but again, it just freezes the 
> coco or hangs even though all these games work fine under VCC.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire help needed
>
>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Michea <jmichea at cogeco.ca> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello I'm hoping to get some help from the community with a little 
>>> drivewire problem I've been having.
>>>
>>> I've been using drivewire just fine using the cassette cable method 
>>> of getting the HDB-DOS rom loaded but got tired of the constant 
>>> loading so I ordered and recieved the rompak version of HDB-DOS today.
>>> I loaded up my coco 3 with the rompak and then I loaded up drivewire 
>>> as I usually do and loaded a virtual disk as I've done many times 
>>> before, but now the drivewire server gives me a steady stream of 
>>> "checksum" errors like this:
>>>
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[614] Checksum[26101] Error[0]
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[615] Checksum[29408] Error[0]
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[616] Checksum[25969] Error[0]
>>> 2010-10-18 13:24:56 OP_READEX[0] LSN[617] Checksum[26288] Error[0]
>>
>> These are very normal and are not errors at all.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I went back and tried the cassette cable method of loading the DOS 
>>> and got the same checksum errors. I then dug out another coco 3 and 
>>> with both methods of loading DOS I get the same errors. So I thought 
>>> perhaps its the USB-to-9pin serial adaptor I have even though it has 
>>> worked fine with drivewire up to this point.
>>>
>>> I then tried an older PC with a built in 9 pin serial port, which 
>>> again, has worked just fine with drivewire in the past. Same thing 
>>> using 2 different coco's, two different methods of loading DOS, and 
>>> two different windows XP based PC's.
>>>
>>> I've checked the control panel and the settings for the serial port 
>>> and tried different settings such as 115,200 baud but no settings on 
>>> either PC gave different results, just a steady stream of checksum 
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> So in short I've tried:
>>>
>>> 2 different coco 3's (128k and 512k)
>>> 2 different windows XP machines
>>> 2 different methods of loading DOS
>>>
>>> The only constant I can think of is the drivewire cable itself but 
>>> again, its been flawless up to this point.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or opinions are very welcome.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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