[sebhc] Re-creating actual floppies from archive

[John Maxwell]

Gentlemen,
    I forgot to mention that I think that one of my H89s uses two 
half-height soft-sector-controlled drives and the other two use the 
standard single hard-sector-controlled drive. I am trying to remember 
from when these arrived which was which, I was told, but my memory is a 
bit foggy - it has been a long time (> 4 years!) since I put these up on 
the bench. Each passes the internal memory test (several octal passes, 
too!) :-)

    I would very much be interested in the utility to bootstrap the 
machine(s). Please send the link and I'll get started this upcoming 
weekend! I have at least one machine dedicated to file transfer and it 
boots DOS v6.22. I use Kermit and other communications applications on it.

    Thanks to both for your responses and your help.

    Take care,
      -John

Robin England wrote:

 > Hello John

 > Are your H89 drives the hard-sectored or soft-sectored type?

 > Rgds
 > Robin


and Dwight Elvey wrote:

> Hi John
>  As Robin notes, so far, all of the images
> on the ftp are for hard sectored drives and not
> for soft sectored ( as far as I know ).
> There is a utility on the ftp, that I wrote,
> that you can use to bootstrap your machine
> to a bootable disk if it is hard sectored.
> You need a PC running DOS ( not a DOS window
> under windows but boots to DOS ). You'll
> need a cable connecting the PC to a serial
> card in the the H89 on the printer port
> ( You'll need to make sure the wires are
> 1 to 1 in the serial cable and that the
> serial card has the normal jumpering ).
>  You enter about 50 bytes from the monitor
> that loads a basic serial loader. You then
> download from the PC a disk driver that
> will create a bootable disk from one of the
> OS images on the ftp.
>  You need to follow the instructions exactly
> that come with the program. Most all failures
> to work are caused by missing some step.
>  Of course, you'll need some 10 hard sectored disk
> as well.
> Dwight
> 
> 
> 
>>From: "John Maxwell" <maxwell at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>>
>>Hi All,
>>   I have downloaded several floppy images from the archives and was 
>>searching for a utility to convert them back to real floppies. None of 
>>my three H89s have a boot diskette at the moment, so I would need to 
>>create diskettes on an IBM PC. Does anybody have a verified method for 
>>doing this? I looked in the archive folders and didn't find anything 
>>that was apparent.
>>   Could somebody please point me to an IBM utility for doing this? I 
>>would appreciate it.
>>
>>   Take care,
>>      -John
>>
>>
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