[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A - Cannot boot from system disks

[Marc Desfossés]

Hi,

> Can you format the scsi2sd card (from recovery) and then once you reach the
> above step after booting from Gotek can you copy the files from the system
> and master "floppies" onto the sdcard?    Then when booting from sdcard do
> you get the same error?

Once the system is up (after ignoring the error 205 on disk 2), I  can copy disk 1 but I am unable to copy disk 2 or 3. It says INVALID FILE after about 45 seconds. I cannot ignore this error so the copy ends there.

I tried the TEAC drive and it's the same as Sony. To be sure it was not related to the HxC firmware,  I installed FlashFloppy 3.13 and set the drive back to Sony. I get the same ERROR 205.

I see there is a Test Floppy Disk option in service disk 1.4 but it's not implemented. It's not there at all on Service disk 6. Is there a known way to perform a Floppy Test ?

The only thing I have not updated yet is the RAM (Still at 2Mb). I do not think that 2Mb is the issue since I can load from the hard disk.

Thanks

Marc



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Envoyé : 17 mars 2020 20:34
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Objet : Re: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A - Cannot boot from system disks

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 4:53 PM Marc Desfossés <mdesfoss at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I was able to skip it and this time I was able to boot the system from the
> disk. Could it be the floppy controller logic that is problematic ?
>

Can you format the scsi2sd card (from recovery) and then once you reach the
above step after booting from Gotek can you copy the files from the system
and master "floppies" onto the sdcard?    Then when booting from sdcard do
you get the same error?

I sold three As earlier this year, and reinitialized their HDDs using a
Gotek and I don't recall seeing the same.    If you want to post the Fluke
rom firmware version you have, gotek firmware variant/version and md5sum of
each hfe image and I'll see if I can reproduce but It may take me a while
as all my remaining As have dead screens and I'll have to take a screen off
an FT.

Tony
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