Fw: [sebhc] Re-creating actual floppies from archive

[Robin England]

Sorry - am being stupid. Have just looked at the schematic I have, it
includes the serial expansion card and clearly shows the Line Printer port
as being P603 on the card. Would still like to know about the RTS/CTS and
DTR/DSR though! Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin England" <robin.england at dial.pipex.com>
To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [sebhc] Re-creating actual floppies from archive


> Hello Dwight
>
> When using your H89TRANS program does the serial cable need the hardware
> handshaking lines connected or will it work with just RX,TX and GND? Sorry
> if this has been answered elsewhere, but upon checking your instructions
you
> only mention it having to be a 1:1 cable. Also, please can you explain
which
> of the serial ports on the serial card (in a H/Z89) is usually the "LP"
> port - I assume this stands for Line Printer but on my machines this is
not
> labelled as such (just two DCE ports and one DTE).
>
> Thanks
> Robin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dwight Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
> To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [sebhc] Re-creating actual floppies from archive
>
>
> > Hi Dave
> >  Yes, he could just run the disk cable over. I'd
> > not thought about using the systems drive. A good idea!
> > Dwight
> >
> > >From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave06a at dunfield.com>
> > >
> > >> >For soft-sectored disks, you should be able to use my ImageDisk
> > >> >program. If you have a raw-binary image, you can use the supplied
> > >> >BIN2IMD utility to add format information (which you will have to
> > >> >know and specify), and then the main IMD program to write the
> > >> >image to a physical floppy disk.
> > >>
> > >>  They just need to have a 360K drive on the PC with your tool :)
> > >
> > >As long as you are aware of the difficulties (ie: use a fresh disk),
> > >you can recreate 360k disks quite acceptably on 1.2M HD drives
> > >using IMD.
> > >
> > >Besides, if he has the Heathkit disk system - doesn't he already
> > >have a suitable drive - just has to cable it to the PC long enough to
> > >make the disks...
> > >
> > >Dave
> > >
> > >--
> > >dave06a (at)    Dave Dunfield
> > >dunfield (dot)  Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
> > >com             Collector of vintage computing equipment:
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> > >
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