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

[David Ladd]

Allen,

This is going to be a good nice thing to have :D

I myself am hoping to test the performance on the new Raspberry Pi 2 Model
B.  Hoping it will increase the performance some :D  Java is such a beast
:P  Muahahah

Thanks,
Dave

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|David Ladd|
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On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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