[Coco] drive wire 4 help
Richard Hawk
rhawk1 at centurylink.net
Sat Jan 15 16:43:36 EST 2011
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Wallace" <dragonbytes at cox.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] drive wire 4 help
> Do you have a .dsk mounted in slot 4 in the disk config? maybe try showing
> me ur xml config file with pastebin.com or something so I can see it for
> myself
>
> - Todd Wallace
>
> On Jan 15, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Richard Hawk wrote:
>
>> i did that copy and past the <HDBDOSMode>true</HDBDOSMode> at the last
>> line in the instance before the warning is that no changes below this
>> line in the config.xml file
>> then do drive off and i cant acess the drive 4 on drive wire now
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Wallace" <dragonbytes at cox.net>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 11:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] drive wire 4 help
>>
>>
>>> In Drivewire 4 config, there is a setting called HDBDOSMode. If you add
>>> this line <HDBDOSMode>true</HDBDOSMode> into the Instance section of
>>> config.xml, then Drivewire 4 will use the proper offset to allow you to
>>> access .dsks mounted after drive 1. What I do, is mount the source .dsk
>>> into drive slot 4 in DW4 (since 0-3 are the real floppies), then do
>>> DRIVE OFF, then put a blank floppy into drive 0, and do a BACKUP 4 TO 0.
>>> You should note though, if you use OS9, HDBDOSMode will totally screw
>>> things up if its enabled while you are using OS9. I'm sure Aaron Wolfe
>>> can explain better than me the specifics. Good luck
>>>
>>> - Todd Wallace
>>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Richard Hawk wrote:
>>>
>>>> how do i back up a floppy image.dsk to a real floppy through drive wire
>>>> 4. drive wire 4 works i can load .dsk images and then go to the coco3
>>>> and read the .dsk and play games . just cant backup my deskmate i been
>>>> working on to a real floppy. i have hdb-dos 1.2 dw3 coco3 rom in
>>>> multislot 2 and real floppy controler in slot 4
>>>>
>>>> i tried poke &hff7f,3
>>>> drive off
>>>> got the floppy to work but cant read drive 4 in drive wire 4
>>>>
>>>> so i can backup drivewire4 drive4.dsk to floppy drive real on drive 0
>>>>
>>>> any help would be greatly apprecicated
>>>>
>>>> richard hawk
>>>> okeechobee, fl
>>>>
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