[Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?

[Aaron Wolfe]

Im fairly sure you cannot access disk drives in one coco from another coco,
however it seems you could create the disk using the emulator but do the
copying to physical disk part using your physical coco.  DriveWire will
talk to both, so create in VCC, copy to DW disk, mount that DW disk on real
coco, copy to real disk.  No need for the disk creation and disk writing to
be the same coco.

Easy than any of that would probably be to just build the disk you want
from the NitrOS9 source.  That's how I churn out various configurations, at
least.  Tweak a makefile and LWTools and the toolshed spit out whatever
disk you want a few seconds later (in .dsk form, still need to mount in DW
and use real coco to write to real disk if a real disk is desired).
On Jul 7, 2014 7:44 PM, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

> Thank you Aaron, Gene and Bill.
>
> Aaron, you wrote:
> "Maybe you could describe what the goal is, I'm sure someone knows how to
> accomplish the end results if they are possible."
> My PC is new, it has no FD controller, hence no FD drives, but lots of ram.
> My original, 128k Coco-3 has 2 physical floppy drives connected to it,
> with HDB-DOS in a FD controller,
> The goal is to make a real boot floppy for the coco, that leaves
> more free ram, then the repo .dsk images do (about 24k).
> This can be achieved by editing the bootlist, leaving out the graphic,
> sound, joystick, etc. modules, making the Term to default to the Coco's
> bitbanger serial port, configured to 9600 baud, xon/xoff with a shell.
>
> "You can access both DriveWire drives and real floppy drives on the *same*
> coco, whether real or emulated, and whether in BASIC or OS9, so it would
> seem there is little reason to need access to one coco's drive from
> another."
> Well, there is a good reason. The virtual Coco (Vcc) has lots of ram,
> one could easily edit the bootlist, os9gen and cobbler a new boot image
> on it. On the real Coco with 24k of free ram it is impossible to say the
> least.
> I'd like to make the above described lean, bootfloppy image on the virtual
> Coco, and write it on a boot floppy with my floppy drive, connected to the
> real coco.
>
> Kandur
>
> Monday, July 7, 2014, 8:59:29 AM, you wrote:
> > Bill, what I wanted was, to access physical floppy drives on the Coco,
> > while running Nitro OS-9 on VCC. Drive ON/OFF don't seem to work
> > on the Coco's physical drives from OS-9.
>
> > Kandur
>
> > Monday, July 7, 2014, 8:45:54 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> Kandur, if you are referring to the DRIVEON DRIVEOFF commands, these are
> >> exclusive to HDBDOS, so if the emulator is running HDBDOS and the
> emulator
> >> supports real floppies, then yes. Or in the case there's "emulated"
> floppies, then it will turn those off/on.
> >> When "on" the HDBDOS/RGBDOS RSDOS drives 0-3 on a 255 disk partitioned
> VHD
> >> are "on". When "off" then drives 0-3 will read/write to the
> real/emulated system (emulator) floppies.
> >>
>
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> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
> >> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >> Sent: Mon, Jul 7, 2014 11:34 am
> >> Subject: [Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?
>
>
> >> Needed when the PC has no floppy drives.
> >> Any other Coco emulator can do that?
>
> >> Kandur
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