[Coco] Multipak and Drivewire

[Bill Pierce]

Micheal, I don't know much about the CocoSDC, so I'll leave that one to an SDC owner to answer. Sorry.
 

 


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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 5:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Multipak and Drivewire


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
>
>
> 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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