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

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:27:21 -0500 (CDT)
Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com> wrote:

> Since everyone else is talking about it, I thought I'd write in about
> my experience with Drivewire last week.  I thought I'd set up
> Drivewire and get the CoCo actually doing something.  Pulled the
> HDBDOS WAV file for the CoCo 1 from the cloud-9 web page.  Also
> installed the Drivewire 4 server on my Linux box and the MacOS X
> Drivewire 3 server on a different machine, just in case.  The cable,
> as far as I can tell, is correct.  I made it after this diagram:
> http://www.mediafire.com/view/c91gj67kw7q6yzu/CoCo_DriveWire_3_Serial_Cable.pdf
> 
> Anyway, I load up either Drivewire server, tell it to serve some
> floppy images, load HDBDOS off cassette, and everything looks ok but
> the only thing I can get HDBDOS to tell me about any disk device is
> "I/O Error."  It flashes lights on the serial interface when it tries
> to access the disk, but the server doesn't seem to do anything useful
> in response.  I'm afraid it's been a couple of days, but I remember
> seeing a lot of OP_NOP in the log.  Am I missing something obvious
> here?  How does one debug this stuff?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 

	Maybe Chad H. can give a step by step account of how he got it
running. While it is still fresh in his mind.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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