[Techtoolslist] 9100FT RTC

[Tony Jones]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 1:21 AM Kevit Desai <kevitdesai at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I remove the SCSI card, and
> initiate a boot using F2,F4 and soft key  i am able to access service disk,
>

With the scsi card removed booting from dr1 (floppy) should now be the
default.  I suspect you are not invoking soft f2 f4 correctly which is the
cause of your inability to override with the scsi card installed.

>
> Thanks Tony, I did enable reporting of IO errors but observed no change or
> errors reported, I am not sure what to expect.
>

Boot from service again and verify disc error reporting is now the default
setting.

With it enabled any disc errors will be displayed on the VFD.

You can certainly buy a SCSI2SD.  You can also remove the HDD and test it
works on a different SCSI controller.  Lots of debugging options.

It is not unusual to have issues with the floppies or floppy drive, for $20
you can buy a Gotek floppy emulator, install FlashFloppy firmware and
install this instead of the Fluke floppy drive.  If you can't boot into
normal mode using the 3 floppy images via Gotek you absolutely have a
hardware issue of some form.

Good luck

Tony