[sebhc] HUG disk 885-1095 - SY: driver

[Walter Moore]

I'll just send the CP/M disk along with the others, let you copy it and send
it back.  I'm not a CP/M guy.  Don't you also have to build the kernel for
your memory and I/O configuration?  Anyway, it will be easier for you then
me...

I was able to reset the stepping times.  I just didn't want to pull the
write-protect tab off, so I SDUP'ed it and used the copy.  I only found out
about the stepping times by playing a little with the commands on the disk
to see what they did.  I remember the first H17 disks which were the
Wangco's.  They could step at 6ms!  I like the REDUCDIR command.  I wrote
one way back in '79 to do just that.  Getting back something like 10
allocation units was great!

..walt

-----Original Message-----
From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:31 AM
To: sebhc at sebhc.org
Subject: RE: [sebhc] HUG disk 885-1095 - SY: driver

> Question about SDUP - can it also copy CP/M disks?  One of the disks I was
> supposed to copy is CP/M and it wasn't able to copy it.  I don't
> know if the
> disk has gone bad or if SDUP reads/writes via HDOS instead of the ROM and
> thus cannot read the CP/M format.

Walter, no, it won't do CP/M.  It expects to find all of the volume
number/label foo.  If you need a CP/M boot disk with copier, let me know and
I'll one along.

> Regarding the SDUP disk I was sent - it would seem a good idea whenever
> sending out a copy of a bootable SDUP disk to set the drive
> stepping to 36ms
> for all drives.  Some of these old drives won't step at 8ms.  Just a
> thought.

Argh.  The things we forget.  Sorry, my bad.  Were you able to reset the
step rate, or shall I send you one of those as well?

--Patick

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