[Coco] Newbie questions

[Sean Margules]

Ok, so I've been reading the HDB-DOS 1.1 manual, and trying to get the backup command to work. The virtual ROM image I'm using is the one that came with the 1.43 beta: hdbdw3bc3.rom. Now this ROM will not give me a command prompt unless drivewire 4 is running. It boots up just fine and beeps, but there is no flashing little cursor, and I can't type anything into the emulator. This is true whether or not I have the becker port enabled. If drivewire 4 is running I can enter commands. DISKOFF seemed to work with drivewire running, I could see the game with "dir" but when I tried to "BACKUP 0 to 4" I got an IO error, and now no matter how many times I do a hard reset, DISKOFF just returns an SN error. This is with HDB-DOS as well as RGB-DOS, with drivewire on or off. Stuck again I'm afraid.



On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:10 PM, Sean Margules <s_man501 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
cool. I get it now. I also got a copy of the HDBDOS users manual now, thanks to Robert. Stay tuned for more goofy questions.



On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:20 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:


Sean,
The answer to that is no. Driveoff just shuts down virtual drives 0-3 (of 256 virtual drives) and allows access to 0-3 on real floppies. This allows you to copy to and from 0-3 (real) / 4-255 (virtual)
Drive on turn virtual 0-3 back on and turns of real 0-3


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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Margules <s_man501 at yahoo.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Newbie questions

Thank you all for the info. If I'm understanding
correctly RGBDOS doesn't allow 
access to the disk drives because it is substituting a hard drive for them. If 
you want the disk drives you have to DRIVEOFF to shut down the hard drive. But 
if that's the case, how does one go about tranferring data to the VHD (since you 
can't read a disk from a drive and access the hard drive at the same time)? For 
instance if I wanted to take DK.dsk and transfer it to one of the 256 partitions 
of Nitros9.VHD What would I need to do?




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