Re: Disk Image Server Software?

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Glenn Jones replied:
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> >"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >> Glenn Jones asked:

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> If you are willing to have the emulator access an attached Apple II-
> Disk ][ combo as a block-level device, with no low-level access, then
> this should be no more complex on the PC side than emulating an
> Apple hard disk with a PC disk file.  Of course, this means that one
> of the primary reasons for wanting to attach to a real Disk ][, using
> copy-protected disks, would not work.
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> If you are using ProDOS, then the Oasis PC-server solution is a
> fine one.  You can do anything you could do with a real Apple //e
> (because you are doing it on a real Apple //e  ;-) and access disk
> image files on the PC.  Unless you really need a IIgs, that does
> everything that you want, right?

Lets says I have a IIe or IIGS that has a CFFA adapter with CF and xGB IDE
drive. For the most part I would use those devices from the Apple IIxx
directly. If I wanted read/write access to that hardware from an emulator
running on my desktop or Linux/Pocket PC with out moving and connecting to
those devices physically  then what I want is a method of accessing those
devices. I have less of a personal requiremet to access 3.5 or 5.25 disks
(even less for copy protected ones) but I would not want to preclude them
from a solution if possible..

My understanding of the Oasis PC server is that it is primarily ment to
go ][ to PC. I was told that S-Link is bi-directional so maybe that is worth
a look ...although I am looking for something that can be
re-used/modified....

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> If you do need the IIgs, then you need someone to write a GSOS
> driver for a pseudo-disk on a serially-connected PC.  There is,
> unfortunately, no OS-independent solution.
>
> -michael
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