[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Mark Garlanger]

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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