[Coco] DriveWire on the Raspberry Pi in five easy steps.

[Bill Pierce]

Allen, you can drop the "load drivewire drivers" step as all the Nitros9 repo disks that support dw already have the drivers. It would be better to tell people to update their NitrOS9 install to the current dw supported version first. This should eliminate those errors you are seeing.
They need to first update their system to the current version for the tutorial or you'll have people asking why this doesn't work on their Tandy OS9 master disk boots :-)
(I've had it happen)
 Also, the drivewire drivers will ONLY work with NitrOS9 and I'm not sure how far back this goes as far as version, but at some point, even that breaks. DW will not run on vanilla OS9 at all.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 9:25 pm
Subject: [Coco] DriveWire on the Raspberry Pi in five easy steps.


I am writing up a huge, detailed step-by-step tutorial on getting DriveWire 4 
server running on a Pi. It includes all the necessary steps to download and 
install the Linux SD card and such.

The current DriveWire 4 is so easy to make go it only breaks down to five “you 
know the rest” steps:

1. Download the DriveWire server to the Pi and unzip it:

wget http://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/download/DriveWire4_4.3.3.zip
unzip DriveWire4_4.3.3.zip
cd DriveWire4_4.3.3.zip

2. Edit the config.xml file to default to your serial port on your Pi in 
<deviceType> (change to “serial”) and <serialDevice> (change to "/dev/ttyUSB0” 
or whatever your serial port it).

3. Run the server with no user interface:

java -jar DW4UI.jar -noui

4. On the CoCo, load the needed DriveWire modules from NITROS9/6x08L2/MODULES/RBF:

merge dwio.sb rbdw.dr x0.dd x1.dd x2.dd x3.dd >/dd/dw
attr /dd/dw -e
load /dd/dw

5. Use the "dw" command to test things by creating a blank disk image:

dw disk create 0 /home/pi/test.dsk
format /x0
dir /x0

I did a test dsave to the new /x0 disk and saw a bunch of copies fail with ERROR 
#207 (not the #237 that I might have expected to see if I loaded too many 
modules separately). I’m not sure what is causing that, since I still have 352K 
free.

But hey, it works. I never got around to trying out DriveWire because it seems 
like a bunch of work, but to just get the minimal system up and running was 
surprisingly easy.

Kudos, Aaron and gang. Nicely done.

		— A


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