[Coco] Fwd: X4,X5,X6,X7

[Bill Pierce]

Robert, why not?
My answer would be convenience. I have VHDs with nothing but sources for programming, VHDs for nothing but graphics, one for music, several for archives, one just for all the C compilers and their sources & utilities, and I even have drives of the entire NitrOS9 repository sources. In fact I have a whole directory full of various VHDs on my PC, each set up for a specific purpose. Not only that, I have several instances of VCC, each setup for specific purposes and each with it's own instance of DW4 and collection of drives. At any given time I may have 3 instances going at once. Why? Because I can.

I actually started the 8 drive habit back when I was running my real Coco3. All my floppy drives had died, so I had no real floppies. I extended the DW4 drives to 8 and used 4 of them for floppy disk images. I eventually got used to having all my data and files one CHD away and I enjoy that I can look up about any info or file without searching through my 128 gig collection of Coco software/documentation. When I boot up NitrOS9 (real or emulated), my system is ready to go no matter what I want to do today, be it programming, graphics, music... it doesn't matter. It's all online and I don't have to go through my DSK/VHD collection to setup my working environment for the day. It's just there and it "just works".

I'm just as bad on my PC as I have multiple hard drives & partitions and I just ordered 2x 4TB drives this weekend to add to my collection.
Inspiration is a fleeting demon. If I spend time setting up for what inspired me, by the time I get things ready, I lose the inspiration that fired me up to start with.
I also run my studio the same way. When I start my day, I hit only a few switches and everything in my studio is on and ready to use. Do I need 2 guitar amps on with guitars already plugged in? Do I need the mixing console and my sound system on? Do I need my keyboards on? Maybe not, but when the inspiration hits, all I have to do is pick up a guitar, turn up the volume, and play. If I want to record, I hit record and play.
Maybe it's a bit of self-indulgence, but I like me and I will cater to me as much as I can... even when it comes to my Cocos.


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>; Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>; coco at maltedmedia.com <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Mar 7, 2021 3:42 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] X4,X5,X6,X7

I just looked at the source code and rbdw defines the number of drives at the start of the code.
The question I have is why the need for more than /X0 - /X3 ? You can easily change the drives mounted in Drivewire while OS9 is running. You can mount .vhd drives on Drivewire so space on the drives should not be an issue.I think the reason that Drivewire has 256 drives is to make it compatible with HDBDOS which is unrelated to OS9.

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