[Techtoolslist] v6.1 dd image

[Andrew Welburn]

>> 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.

The provided image works on the 9100A and 9100FT running a compactflash 
adapter of various types (Aztecmonster, Spyrus) plenty of people have 
found it to work. As it was built for a compactflash setup, i'm not 
entirely surprised it doesn't work for an SD card. Its likely your 
adapter configuration is the main issue.

Does your 9100 boot up at all using any system disk of any version?

>> 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.

Without the 9100FT service disk, i do not know the answer to that. My 
9100FT only sees up to 64mb of space in the software. Not sure where 
you're getting the 100mb limit from?

>> 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 :)

Sorry, your previous post was talking about 5.0 roms for an entirely 
different machine (the 9100A).




Andrew Welburn
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