[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Mark Garlanger]

Hi Bob,

  I was actually referring to your offer of the 1.2M floppies, I
wouldn't have time to use them for a while. I'll definitely get the
CP/M disk out to you... it's copied and ready. The HDOS will depend on
if I can re-cable my new system or connect one of my other systems up
to the external hard-sectored drives and make soft-sectored HDOS disk.
My newly acquired system with the working soft-sectored controller was
part a HUGE collection of heath equipment I received and I'm still
trying to inventory and organize all of it.

Mark

On 11/12/06, Bob Shannon <bshannon at tiac.net> wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> Still very much needed, but no rush.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Garlanger" <garlanger at gmail.com>
> To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)
>
>
> > I'm probably not going to have much time to do things with this until
> > after New Year's, so maybe after that, if it's still needed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> > On 11/9/06, Bob Shannon <bshannon at tiac.net> wrote:
> >> Mark,
> >>
> >> I'd be happy to donate some working 1.2 meg 5.25 inch drives if you like!
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mark Garlanger" <garlanger at gmail.com>
> >> To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:53 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)
> >>
> >>
> >> > Unfortunately, I no longer have a PC with a 5 1/4" floppy. I may be
> >> > able to use one of the H89's  drives, but that may take some time to
> >> > move all that around.
> >> >
> >> >   Mark
> >> >
> >> > On 11/5/06, Harten <harten at injectstar.de> wrote:
> >> >> In message
> >> >> <704e82240611041107y4f5ac9f6k23d8d88210cc5299 at mail.gmail.com>
> >> >> you wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > I'll be willing to make images, but I don't have any software to do
> >> >> > that. The software I have (h89trans written by Dwight), only works
> >> >> > with the hard-sectored controller. If there is some other software
> >> >> > available that works for the soft-sectored disks, let me know. Which
> >> >> > software are you using to reproduce the disks from images?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Mark
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> The easiest way is ( and that's how i do it) to use a nativ old MS-DOS
> >> >> (PC-clone) machine.
> >> >>
> >> >> Why that? These old machines have 5.25" floppy drives (often called
> >> >> 360 K
> >> >> Drive)
> >> >>           and there is software for reading foreign disk formats.
> >> >>
> >> >> In detail:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hardware  286 / 386 / 486 are the best machines for backing up floppy
> >> >> disks.
> >> >>           Not too fast 586 / pentium I will work also.
> >> >>
> >> >>           One 5.25" floppy drive with 40 tracks double sided (360 k)
> >> >> is
> >> >> perfect.
> >> >>           A 1.2 M HD floppy drive will be able to read 40 track disks,
> >> >> but not to
> >> >>           write back.
> >> >>
> >> >>           Another important thing is the floppy-controller. Most
> >> >> common
> >> >> controller-
> >> >>           cards will be able to read even single density disks. A
> >> >> 37C65
> >> >> controller
> >> >>           chip will read and write single density disks.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> OS        Native MS-DOS version 4.0 and above is the best choice.
> >> >>           Windows 95/98 started in DOS-Mode will work also.
> >> >>
> >> >> Software  TELEDISK is very easy to use and common. Images produced
> >> >> with
> >> >> TELEDISK
> >> >>           are called TD0 as this is the ending of the filenames
> >> >> xxxxxxxx.td0
> >> >>
> >> >>           There are several versions of TELEDISK, which are all a bit
> >> >> different.
> >> >>           You have to try out which version works best on your
> >> >> hardware.
> >> >>
> >> >>           IMAGEDISK let you make more decisions on the way of reading
> >> >> the
> >> >> disk
> >> >>           and works also great for me.
> >> >>
> >> >> I hope this will help You!
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards.
> >> >>
> >> >> Axel
> >> >>
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