[Coco] Multipak and Drivewire

[Michael Brant]

Bill thanks i shall try your advice.  Another question.  Since i also have
a CoCoSDC I am wondering how that would play nice with my HDBDOS FD502 disk
setup--2 5.25 drives.
On May 14, 2015 4:52 PM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Michael, when using DW, HDBDOS and real floppies, you issue a "DRIVEOFF"
> cmd which disables dw drives 0-3. This does not disable drives 4-255! You
> can copy real floppies to and partition from 4-255. If you need to get them
> to 0-3, let's say you want to copy a real disk to dw slot 0. Use DRIVEOFF,
> copy the disk 0 to disk 4. Then issue DRIVEON, copy disk 4 to disk 0.
> In fact, I always leave disk 4 as a temp disk for copying.
> Now, there are other forms of the "DRIVEOFF/ON" cmd.
> DRIVEOFF2 will disable dw drives0-2 and leave 3-255
> DRIVEOFF0 will disable dw drive0 and leave 1-255
> Any combo or driveooff 0-3 will work the same.
>
> Also in DW, you can issue DRIVE #x where 'x' is any number from 0-255,
> which will change "partitions" and put you system on another DW slot. You
> cannot copy from one dw drive to another, drives being the DW slots, disks
> being the partitions.
> There has been a lot of confussion from day one with DW due to the double
> use of "DRIVE"
> DRIVE1 will set "disk 1" as the default
> DRIVE#1 will set DW drive slot as default and has nothing to do with the
> above, but will retain the above setting on the new drive (DRIVE1).
>
> I hope this helps. The best resource is the HDBDOS User's Manual on Cloud
> 9's website.
> Yeah, I know... Download HDBDOS from here, the manual from there, DW from
> over there, the DW Wiki is over yonder, and Nitros9 is waaay over there.
> Bouncing all over the net to get one working package.
> It took me 3 months to find everything and get it working. I hadn't
> subscribed to the list at that time so I had few to ask how it was done.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Brant <brant.michael.l at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, May 14, 2015 4:13 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Multipak and Drivewire
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> I have an MPI, I also have a CoCoSDC, along with two FD502s (one stock and
> one
> with HDB-DOS.)
> Both the SDC-DOS and HDB-DOS allow me to use Drivewire (which I
> connect to
> DW3 on my Mac Pro.)
> The question is this how (if possible) does the
> system assign disk numbers
> and drive numbers?
>
> So far I have used the drive
> function but when doing so, I it seems to
> cutoff access to the DW and only
> access physical disks.
>
> I am fairly new to DW and MPI usage, my old CoCo days
> did not have an MPI.
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