[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Bob Shannon]

Mark,

I'd be happy to donate some working 1.2 meg 5.25 inch drives if you like!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Garlanger" <garlanger at gmail.com>
To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)


> 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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