[Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

[Robert Gault]

Chris Osborn wrote:
> I found some time this weekend to mess around with the CoCo that I recently got working and thought I'd see what DriveWire is and what it can do. I downloaded DriveWire 4 and I'm running it on a laptop that I put next to the CoCo. I have the serial port and cassette port plugged into the laptop. I did a couple of test saves and loads with the cassette to Sound Recorder on Windoze so I know that's working.
>
> Going through the wiki that is linked from the DriveWire site it talks a lot about features and how to configure exotic things and a bunch of other stuff. But nothing anywhere tells me how I bootstrap my CoCo so that I can use DriveWire. Do I need to type in a BASIC bootstrap program? Load something from the cassette sent by the DriveWire app? Does anyone have a simple tutorial that I can follow?
>
> Here's a pic of my setup:
> https://twitter.com/fozztexx/status/381550383115415552

You need the HDBDOS ROM for Drivewire. That means you will need either 1) a disk 
controller where the ROM can replace the normal disk ROM, 2) a copy of the ROM 
that can be LOADMed into memory, or 3) a cassette version of the ROM that can be 
CLOADMed from tape.