[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues

[John Robertson]

On 2017/08/19 6:47 AM, William Stillwell via Techtoolslist wrote:
> So... What do i need to do to prevent BRICKING my Fluke 9110FT when i try
> to set the ram options up ?
>
> William Stillwell
One suggestion would be to socket the serial RAM and archive it. That 
device has the machines serial number and all the settings of course.

John :-#)#

> 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!