[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues

[Ian Eure]

Ah, that's handy.  I have mine mounted inside, because I don't like modifying the case.

I'm very glad folks are finding the disk images and cracked service disk useful.

> On Aug 9, 2017, at 5:15 AM, Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I have presented the SD card at the side of my 9100ft so I just imaged a
> spare SD with the service disk for when I need it.
> 
> Thanks for all you work on the software imaging Ian it's really handy.  I
> transferred my missing pod libraries from the images you have made.
> 
>> On 8 August 2017 at 18:47, Ian Eure <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:
>> 
>> That's good to know.  I wonder if you can set up the SCSI2SD so you can
>> choose a partition to boot from.  That would let you boot the service disk
>> any time, or other versions of the OS.
>> 
>>> On Aug 8, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Chris Loggans via Techtoolslist <
>> techtoolslist at flippers.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I had not thought of copying the disk image to the SD card on a PC.
>> Very creative!
>>> Glad I could help,-Chris
>>> 
>>>     From: Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk>
>>> To: Chris Loggans <cloggans at yahoo.com>; Technical Tools Mail List <
>> techtoolslist at flippers.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:48 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues
>>> 
>>> Thank you Chris this worked a treat!My process was to convert the
>> cracked service disk from .imd to .raw using samdisk and the rename the
>> .raw to .img.  I then used win32 disk imager to write the image to an SD
>> and swapped out the main 6.1 SD with this!
>>> Thanks again!
>>> 
>>> On 8 August 2017 at 16:45, Chris Loggans via Techtoolslist <
>> techtoolslist at flippers.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Steve,
>>>    I did the exact same thing to myself a couple weeks ago.  I was also
>> in the process of installing a SCSI2SD adapter at the time so I formatted
>> an SD card in another 9100 that I had and copied just the Service disk to
>> the SD card.  I then installed the SD card in the machine I set incorrectly
>> and it booted to the Service disk from the SD card which allowed me to
>> change the floppy setting.  If you don't have an SD card, I'm sure you
>> could do the same with a spare SCSI drive.  From my tests with the HxC, I
>> found that that the Sony and Teac settings seem to work fine.  (I don't
>> remember about the Mitsumi but I think that worked too.)  I could not get
>> either of the Canon's to work.  I was planning on putting together some
>> information and seeing if I could get some help from the HxC forum since
>> the Canon seems to be the drive in most of the non-FT 9100's.
>>> Thanks,-Chris
>>> 
>>>      From: Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk>
>>> To: Technical Tools Mail List <techtoolslist at flippers.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:17 AM
>>> Subject: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues
>>> 
>>> Hey List
>>> I have just purchased a Hxc Floppy emulator and successfully ran the
>>> cracked service disk from it to upgrade the memory.  There just one
>>> problem..
>>> When you go through the automated process on the disk it asks you for the
>>> the type of floppy. Now mine has a Canon in it and as it's a Ft I chose
>>> Canon HD. Thiswould appear to be the wrong choice as I can no longer boot
>>> the service disk nor can I copy files from DR1 to HD1.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else come across this and if so can you help me get things
>> back
>>> on track?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
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