[Techtoolslist] Samdisk looks very promising...

[Andre Huijts]

I decided to write back the 6.1 images on my 6.0 floppies because 6.0 is archived and safe anyway.

I succesfully booted the system but it does show errors during boot up. HOWEVER, this also happens with BOTH of the original 6.1 floppies I have.
I believe that (at least some) errors are there because of me removing the SCSI cable from the HD. Since the interface is still installed (and maybe some dip-switch setting?) I think the 9100 assumes the HD still to be there....

Anyway, I think Samdisk did a perfect job, the errors are not to blame on the program.

One question:

I still have another set of 6.0 but it has hand-written "9105" on it. I THINK that this was only just to indicate to which system this set was delivered or that it "belonged" to the 9105.
Can anyone confirm there is no difference between V6.0 for the 9105 and 9100 ?

I can try to boot from those disks and see if that boots error free.

I could make a video of the boot process.



Op 21 nov. 2012, om 19:03 heeft Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> het volgende geschreven:


> I just deinstalled the special drivers for Omniflop and rebooted my PC, this automatically reinstalled the default windows drivers for the floppy drive.

> 

> Then installed the fdrawcmd.sys file and copied Samdisk to my C: root.

> 

> Started a command box and fiddled around with some of the commands.

> 

> I got this info when doing the scan command:

> 

> 83 Cyls, 2 heads:

> 250Kbps MFM, 16 sectors, 256 bytes/'sector

> 

> Then it started a list of what looks like info per track:

> 0.0 0 8 1 9 2 10 3 11 4 12 5 13 6 14 7 15

> 1.0 0 8 1 9 2 10 3 11 4 12 5 13 6 14 7 15

> 

> The first digit is the tracknr., the second the headnr. The other nrs are the sector numbers.

> 

> All tracks show the same info.

> 

> For tracks 80,81,82 it reports <blank>

> So it looks like the format is 80 tracks.

> 

> 

> Also did a "view" command and to my amazement I got to see all the bytes in hex and ASCII per sector.....I could read some info that makes sense so I guess at least Samdisk is reading the discs correctly.

> 

> Now making images...

> 

> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

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André Huijts
andre.huijts at upcmail.nl