[Coco] DriveWire and many disks

[Aaron Wolfe]

No worries, the way HDBDOS works with drives is non-obvious if you aren't
familiar with it from use with other storage options.
 On Oct 27, 2013 8:06 PM, "Juan Castro" <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was it. Thank you and sorry for the dumbth.
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is normal HDBDOS behavior, not a DriveWire function but DW does have
> > settings to translate it to something more like you may expect.
> >
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=Using_DriveWire#HDBDOSMode
> > On Oct 27, 2013 7:49 PM, "Juan Castro" <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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