[Coco] Dragon & Drivewire

[Ken H.]

I agree with Frank that not supporting virtual SS80 DOS disks under
drivewire is not much of a sacrifice.
Under NitrOS9 driverwire will support any disk format anyway, and most
importantly virtual hard disks.
For DOS usage SS40/DS40 seems to be the most common format.

Under RSDOS, Drivewire currently seems to support only SS35 virtual disks.

Aaron - will supporting different sized disks for DragonDos require any
changes in the Drivewire server code?


On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:51:38 +0100
> From: Phill Harvey-Smith<afra at aurigae.**demon.co.uk<afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk>
> >
>
>
> Next up I guess is to take the DW bitbang routines out of HDB-DOS ans
> see if I can insert them into SuperDos, as this would allow the Dragon
> to natively use a DriveWire server. Though the complicating factor here
> is that DragonDos & SuperDos, unlike RS-DOS allow 4 different disk
> formats SS40, SS80, DS40 and DS80. The problem being of course that SS80
> and DS40 are the same size  NitrOS9 handles this because it just uses
> LBA rather the CHS.
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> Phill, how common is the SS80 format? Would it help to take it out? I
> don't know of any single sided 80 track drives ever used over here. I know
> a DS drive can be used as SS, but not much reason to do so even in RS-DOS
> if DS were supported. Well, if one had some old SS drives, maybe...
>
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> Frank Swygert
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