[Coco] DriveWire and many disks

Juan Castro jccyc1965 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 19:48:56 EDT 2013


Java in my DW machine was borked, so I  installed a new OS (CentOS 6)
and proceeded to install DW4 server.  Downloaded the 4.3.3 version
from the Google Code site, fired it up, selected CoCo3 config, turned
on my CoCo 3 with my trusty HDB-DOS 1.4 DW3 COCO 3 ROM (don't ask me
to run a DW4 ROM; such a thing NEVER worked with me) and it read the
virtual disk (DECB) just OK. Ran SockMaster' s DK even. OK, let's
mount other DSKs as drives 1, 2 etc.

THAT didn't work. The DW server registered reads on drive 0 whenever I
tried to read drives 1 or 2. Activating debug, it seemed the client
was trying to read sectors out of range. Mmmm.

Then  I concatenated the three .DSK's into one and mounted THAT as
drive 0. Lo and behold, all three disks appear now as drives 0, 1, and
2! Wot gives?

Juan



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