[Coco] Level3 and Drivewire may not work

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 17 December 2014 22:04:40 Richard E Crislip did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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
> 
> ALRIGHT!!!! 8-) What is SCF and RBF. There oh so many explanations of
> SCF on Google, but which one is being used here. TIA

For us, it is Sequential Character File, and Random Block File.

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