[Techtoolslist] v6.1 dd image

[Tony Jones]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Welburn <andy at andysarcade.net> wrote:

>> I ran some low-level scsi diags on the Quantum drive that came with my
>> 9100FT and it's not sensing correctly.
>
> If you are plugging this into a PC, you wont see anything useful, everything
> will report empty/missing/bad.

"low-level scsi diags" I was referring to the Adaptec low-level SCSI
diags (2940UW).   Has nothing to do wih OS, partition tables, etc.

>>  So  I bought one of the
>> SCSI2SD (codesrc) adapters and a box of DD floppies but one of the two
>> 1.44mb drives I had gathering dust appears to be totally dead and the
>> other I'm having no luck writing to (either from dos utils or
>> teledisk). I tried connecting the Fluke floppy drive to the PC (BIOS
>> configured as 720k) but that didn't work either.
>>
>> The above dd image, even though it's for a CF card should probably
>> work on a SD.    Failing this,  I'll have to sort the floppies out.
>
>
> Good luck on trying that out, i'm running CF here, i have not experimented
> with SD. If you make it work, post your results.

Doesn't seem to like it.  Definite progress over before (Disk Access
LED was on permenantly) but now falls back to floppy. Verified sdcard
write. Also can boot grub2 off the card (same 2940UW) so the scsi2sd
hw is good,  but for whatever reason FT doesn't like that image.   I
know it's claimed to work with the 9100. Anyways,  "working" floppy I
have doesn't seem to like the DD disks,  I'll try and find a HD blank
to verify and possibly a new floppy drive so I can create the service
disk.

> Neither worked for me, ymmv. The v6.1 compactflash image that i created came
> from a direct hard-disk lift from another working setup, therefore
> side-stepping the serialised floppy disk problem.

OK, that extra detail is useful.    So 100mb is the maximum usable
disk size?   Seems an odd limit base2/8/16 wise.

> I'm running V1.3 and have not changed them, because nobody has come up with
> a later dumped chip. For reasons that should be obvious, don't put a 9100A
> bios chip in the 9100FT :)

Yes, that seems rather obvious :)