[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues

Sat Aug 19 09:47:54 EDT 2017

So... What do i need to do to prevent BRICKING my Fluke 9110FT when i try
to set the ram options up ?

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On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Ian Eure <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:

> 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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