[Coco] need drivewire help

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 March 2019 10:53:03 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 March 2019 10:00:41 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> > Gene, as far as I know, drivewire is still in the same place but
> > Aaron maintained the actual release on his google site "CocoCoding"
> >
> > https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
>
> So the sourceforge stuff is dead end. I'll see whats ^^^^^^ here then.
>
> And whats there is 4.3.3o which just works, and which it got from
> sourceforge as I had to sign up for a bunch of BS from them to get it,
> if I go down and restart the coco it should all just work again.
>
Except the coco isn't seeing it, I tried both available USB ports and 
rebooted the coco 5 or 6 times now. But if I change the link back to 
4.3.3o it probably will work. But my  legs are complaining about all 
those trips down and back up the basement steps. But it mostly works 
from a /t2 login too.  So back to where I started...

> So whats with the 4.3.4e?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Wed, Mar 27, 2019 7:57 am
> > Subject: [Coco] need drivewire help
> >
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > Several years ago, in 2012 or so, I setup a 100 megabyte file, and
> > mounted it as /x1 on my coco3 nos9 setup, and its held a bunch of
> > stuff I wanted to transfer from my coco3's hard drives to my web
> > page.
> >
> > But something felt wrong with the last drivewire update, so I
> > reverted to 4.3.3o, which seemed to be ok and I've used it rather
> > uneventfully since.
> >
> > But somebody last week asked about "find" so I searched /dd and
> > found the src file I built it find from all those years ago, s.Find
> > by Stephan Goldberg, which would have contained my fixes to make it
> > work universally and copied it to this 100MByte ext4 file called
> > genes_common.dsk using drivewire.
> >
> > Trashed the file. I used ded /x1@ to delete it from the root
> > directory by zeroing out its entry, but the file structure is still
> > trashed, containing a recursive entry for a directory that should
> > not exist.
> >
> > dcheck can't check it, and a dir -e only gets to the 3rd entry in
> > the root directory, so the file is well and truly trashed as an os9
> > filesystem image.
> >
> > Is there anyone here who might be able to help me salvage this, or
> > should I delete it and start from scratch at making a new "copy back
> > and forth" box that looks like /x1 to the coco3/nos9?
> >
> > Drivewire seems to have disappeared from sourceforge too??????  Has
> > it been moved and I didn't get the memo? The latest I seem to have
> > is DriveWire4_4.3.4e, and that one doesn't appear to work. So I'm
> > back on 4.3.3o ( I think, my installs consist of unpacking to a new
> > directory, and changing the dw4directory link to point at the newly
> > unzipped directory.  The About of the running instance says 4.3.30.
> >
> > Thanks all.
> > .
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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> >
> >
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>