[sebhc] Re-creating actual floppies from archive

[Dwight Elvey]

Hi Joe
 .h8d are a hard sectored images. Use my utility
in the utilities directory. You need to actually
write the disk on a H89 with a hard sectored controller.
You'll need a PC that boots to real DOS, serial cable
and the H89 must have a serial board with the LP: port.
You also need a hard sectored disk.
 I just described this to someone else a few messages back.
Using H89LDR9.ZIP.
 Dave's site has some tools to handle emulation on the
a PC and I think he has a way to transform h8d files
to his format used by his emulator.
 I doubt that PIE for hard sector HDOS would run under CP/M.
Dwight

>From: "Joe Smith" <bandit1921 at cox.net>
>
>It is under software/disk-images/other .. Or basically how does one 
>make a disk out of the h8d files?
>
>At 03:07 PM 3/14/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>>Hi Joe
>>  Now I'm confused. Where did you get the file
>>you are talking about. I looked on www.sebhc.org/archive/
>>and only see hard sectored stuff for the CPM files.
>>Where did you find the zip file? If I can look at the file,
>>maybe I can help. Otherwise who knows.
>>Dwight
>>
>>
>> >From: "Dwight Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
>> >
>> >Hi Joe
>> > I only know about the hard sectored images.
>> >These are all just sector by sector copies
>> >and there is a way to put them back on disk
>> >using the utility on the site that I wrote.
>> > Who ever created the soft sectored images
>> >can speak up and tell you what tool he used.
>> >I'm sure they can be put back on disk with
>> >the same tool.
>> >Dwight
>> >
>> >
>> >>From: "Joe Smith" <bandit1921 at cox.net>
>> >>
>> >>All those images and no way to turn them back into disks? That is
>> >>basically what I want to know,I don't really see anything that lets
>> >>you do that.Nor is it very clear about what and how.
>> >>At 02:24 PM 3/14/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>> >>>Hi Joe
>> >>>  If the it is an ascii text file that
>> >>>you are trying to recover, you can write a simple
>> >>>program, in the language of your choice, to reorder
>> >>>the sectors. Once you know the order, extracting
>> >>>the file should be relatively easy. I'm assuming
>> >>>it is a text file that you are trying to look at.
>> >>>  You just need to know the sector size and the number
>> >>>of sectors per track. Buffer a track at a time,
>> >>>un-scramble the sectors and write the buffer to
>> >>>a file. Once you locate the file you want, just
>> >>>read it out.
>> >>>  I dn't know of any specifc utility for this. You
>> >>>should write your own. If it is good, put it on
>> >>>the site.
>> >>>Dwight
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> >From: "Joe Smith" <bandit1921 at cox.net>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >Even if I could write it out to a 1.44 disk would be good, that is
>> >>> >what I need to know, what utility does that?
>> >>> >At 02:07 PM 3/14/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>> >>> >>Hi
>> >>> >>  Most early CP/M used interleaving of the sectors.
>> >>> >>Once it is un-zipped, it is still just a raw image.
>> >>> >>If you wanted to look at specific files, you'd need
>> >>> >>to figure the inteleaving.
>> >>> >>Dwight
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> >From: "Joe Smith" <bandit1921 at cox.net>
>> >>> >> >
>> >>> >> >It is in the archive under cpm software
>> >>> >> >At 03:25 PM 3/14/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>> >>> >> >> > Wasn't talking about zip files Dave,the little file that is
>> >>> >> >> inside of the zip.
>> >>> >> >> > Example:PIE 1.5b  Distribution Disk, that is what is in 
>> the PIE.zip,
>> >>> >> >> > how does one read that file into something understandable?
>> >>> >> >> > Kind of like uuencode/decode..
>> >>> >> >>
>> >>> >> >>I don't recognize "PIE" - is this somthing you downloaded from my
>> >>> >> >>site? If so, it's something that I've forgotten about (and not
>>something
>> >>> >> >>I created) - give me a reminder as to where (exactly) is is?
>> >>> >> >>
>> >>> >> >>Dave
>> >>> >> >>
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