[Coco] Drivewire and ADOS...

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sep 30, 2013 11:24 AM, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Well, ADOS is not sold anymore. It doesn't have a website. And, 20 year
old manuals will not automagically update with a change.
>
> Since this is behavior specific to Drivewire and ADOS, this needs to be
in a Troubleshooting section of Drivewire. I don't know if there would be a
problem booting to NitrOS9 on a local floppy using ADOS. I suspect that
will work fine.
>

I suspect the issue is that HDBDOS and ADOS cannot "coexist"... This is
probably true of any two DOS roms, and very likely the same issue would
effect users of HDBDOS for the SuperIDE and other flavors of HDBDOS or the
RGBDOS it came from.  Likely this applies to every DOS although I am not an
expert on such things.  Apparently ADOS has had facilities for dealing with
this situation since long before HDBDOS or DriveWire existed.

> But, to scatter needed information all over the web is not useful to an
end user. To you, there is a clear demarcation between Drivewire and
HDB-DOS. As an end user, I see the HDB-DOS wave file as client software for
RS-DOS to Drivewire. I don't see them as separate. And, the first place
common sense would tell me to go to find an answer if I had such a problem
would be the Drivewire site.
>

I believe the most helpful approach will be to provide documentation that
explains the role and scope of the DriveWire software clearly, so that
users will understand the demarcation.  This way hopefully their first
place common sense will take them to the correct project for support.

> It would be useful for end users, and I will send stuff to add to it as I
find them.
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Wolfe
>
>
> I agree its good information.  The question is where to store it.  I don't
> know of a wiki for ADOS or for HDBDOS.   Which would it fall under?  My
> first guess would be in ADOS documentation, actually i suspect the command
> itself is already documented, just not this specific instance of its use.
>
> If HDBDOS is now part of the Toolshed project then we could add an hdbdos
> section on the toolshed wiki at sourceforge.  Really it seems like hdbdos
> should be it's own sourceforge project to me, but I am not involved with
> that project so there may be good reasons it isn't am I am just not aware.
>
> On Sep 30, 2013 10:59 AM, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>> I had recommended Drivewire to a Coco user on the Vintage Computer
forums,
>> as well as subscribing to this list.
>>
>> He has a Hard Drive Specialists Disk Controller with a Custom ADOS EPROM
>> in it. Customized by Hard Drive Specialists.
>>
>> He was unable to get Drivewire to work. He found that by removing the ROM
>> and running the controller without a ROM, it worked. But, that was a lot
of
>> work, and inconvenient.
>>
>> Before I could advise him to try it, he figured out on his own from
>> reading the ADOS manual I had sent him the link to, to use the DISABLE
>> command before loading HDB-DOS.
>>
>> That worked for him. Problem solved. This should be added to the WIKI
>> somewhere.
>>
>> -[ Al ]-
>>
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