[Coco] So, how do I make Drivewire go?

[Bill Pierce]

Chris,
In nitros9 under dw, it will backup to whatever the drive descriptor says it is. Say, if you use /x1 to /x2 on 80trk disks, it is a hard drive descriptor and will try to treat the disk as such. it will error after the first 80 trks. If you're backing up from a real disk to dw (/d0 to /x1), you'll get an error anyway as the descriptor types do not match. Doing a:

backup /x1 /x2 

on 2 80trk disks, it will backup, but continue to try to copy beyond the 80 trks. I don't know if the disk is any good then. I just tried and "dcheck" says the disk is intact.
For copying a real disk over, you may be able to dmode the dw descriptor to match a floppy, but I don't know if dw likes that or not. I've had trouble doing that .

hope it helps


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 12:29 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] So, how do I make Drivewire go?


Just as an update to this thread, when I run the exact same setup through the 
exact same cable, but with a coco 3 on the other end(with the coco 3 hdbdos rom 
loaded), everything is happy.  This is a good start, though I'd like to get this 
working with the coco 1 as well.  At least now I can get software over to the 
systems to use in debugging.  The good news is that it seems I was doing exactly 
the right stuff after all. :)

On a related note, if I boot the drivewire version of os-9, should I just be 
able to run whatever is the equivalent of the "backup" command on a double-sided 
disk or a 720k disk and have it work?

Chris

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