[Coco] Level3 and Drivewire may not work

[Bob Devries]

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Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 18/12/2014 1:04 PM, Richard E Crislip wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:48:49 -0600
> Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ha, just had a thought, DW4’s modules combined could be called NFM
>> ( or network file manager) in combination.  In a network sense you
>> can have both SCF and RBF calls, that can happen, at any time.  DW4
>> seems to handle it, but there seems to be some incompatibility with
>> L3.
>>
>> Bill Nobel
>>
>>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think though it might be connected to the SCF/DWIO/RBDW relation.
>>> I could be wrong, but it seems Drivewire crosses the bridge between
>>> SCF protocol and RBF protocol, to marry the two. Mainly because DW
>>> uses serial protocol, but supports random block management.
>>>
>>> Bill Nobel
>>>
>>>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yeah I found the same thing Robert, I tried DW4 with Becker port
>>>> first thing and found it didn’t boot.  I noticed the same effect
>>>> on other boots of different Image file formats.  I have converted
>>>> some of them to be compatible in VCC, but not all.  I can’t figure
>>>> out why on some of them.  Work perfect in raw Disk basic, but not
>>>> HDBDos.
>>>>
>>>> Bill Nobel
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Having a Level3 boot disk that works with my Coco3, MESS, and
>>>>> VCC, I tried changing the contents of OS9Boot to see if Level3
>>>>> worked with Drivewire. You can use rb1773 instead of cc3disk so
>>>>> why not use rbdw and dwio?
>>>>>
>>>>> Well the new OS9Boot, with rbdw, dwio, and /X#, booted Level3 and
>>>>> floppy access still worked. However the system crashed when
>>>>> trying to read /X0. Doesn't look good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Robert
>>>>>
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>
> ALRIGHT!!!! 8-) What is SCF and RBF. There oh so many explanations of
> SCF on Google, but which one is being used here. TIA
>