[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Mark Garlanger]

I'm probably not going to have much time to do things with this until
after New Year's, so maybe after that, if it's still needed.

Thanks,
 Mark

On 11/9/06, Bob Shannon <bshannon at tiac.net> wrote:
> 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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