[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Bob Shannon]

Hello Mark,

Still very much needed, but no rush.

Thanks in advance,


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Garlanger" <garlanger at gmail.com>
To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)


> 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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