[Coco] An HDBDOS DW4 poll

[Chad H]

Honestly, I just became acquainted with DriveWire 4 so I'm still feeling my
way.  I did read the Wiki on the offsets and I'm "unsure" as to the method
it's actually using.  I know about offsets, and about calculating 'record'
offsets in a database file and such, what I haven't understood yet is how
using offsets can allow me to access 2 different .DSK images at the same
time (for copying back-and-forth) without issuing a HDBDOS DRIVE # command.
IF it's treating offsets above the physical end of the first .DSK file as
belonging to the second disk file, that that makes sense.  I just haven't
gotten that far to try it out yet.  Plus, DriveWire allows me to copy from a
virtual disk in the .DSK partition to my physical FD-502 drive, then back to
another virtual disk in a DIFFERENT partition (i.e. BACKUP command), it just
means a extra step and time.   I'm sure the scheme is simple once you
understand the mathematics of chaos that float on magnetic drive cylinders
between files.  (sarcasm) 

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Pierce
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:00 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] An HDBDOS DW4 poll


In writing the tutorial on setting up and using drivewire, Ihave a
question/poll for all hdbdos/dw users It's about setting the offset for
partitions in HDBDOS

When you are using hdbdos under DW do you...

1. Use RSDOS/OS9 partitioned VHDs with the offset poke directly into the
hdbdos rom

2. Use RSDOS/OS9 partitioned VHDs with the offset set in th DW server's
"Drive Parameters"

3. Use only single partition VHDs for RSDOS and OS9 with no offsets

4. Just use floppy disk images because you never can figure out the offsets
for partitions or know nothing about them

This info would be helpful.

Bill Pierce
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