[Coco] DriveWire issues with Coco 1 F/285 Board

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Aaron does the DW server accepts a single superIDE image to use as virtual
RS-DOS disks ? I couldn't make it work since it has 512 byte sectors. It
would be nice to be able to simulate a superIDE using DW.



On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First thing: i have a computer with serial-usb dongle and it works fine
> > with Coco2 and 3. In 57kbps and 110kbps respectively. And I use DriveWire
> > 4.3.3
> >
> > But for the coco1 i get a Timed out when reading about 252ms.
> >
> > I noticed if i change DW advanced setting to: ReadDelay = 1 and
> > WriteByteDelay = 1 it works. But is pretty laggy now. A directory listing
> > is stopped at the middle while it waits half second for the next read and
> > so on.
>
> Hello,
>
> I think you would need only WriteByteDelay, this inserts X ms
> artificial delay on each byte sent.  ReadDelay is an artificial pause
> when returning disk sectors, I don't think you should need it.  You
> might get more acceptable performance this way, obviously still not
> ideal.
>
> It might be that a slight delay on the first byte would be enough to
> let the bitbanger routine sync up.. I will add such an option in the
> next version just in case.  I don't have a CoCo 1 here to test with so
> my apologies, the CoCo 1 support is not well tested at all.
>
> -Aaron
>
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