> On Jan 23, 2021, at 1:54 PM, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 11:47 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> The question was asked (I misplaced the note) if the OS images that are on
> the Xhomer website work with David Gesswein's MFM emulator on real hardware.
>
> You can turn these into emulator data files, provided you have the latest
> ext2emu tool that's part of David's software (as of 1/19/2021). The format
> needed is "Elektronika_85" which is the Pro format, called that because it
> was first added to the emulator as the format found on the Russian bootleg
> copy of the Pro of that name.
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> Results, on my Pro 380:
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> 1. P/OS 3.2: works.
> 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything to
> me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380.
>
> The Venix image is special. Venix doesn't support more than 16 sectors per
> track. You may need to put it on a disk whose geometry is 16spt. Maybe that
> is why? Venix should support both the 350 and 380.
That doesn't explain it, because all hard drives on the Pro by definition have
16 sectors per track.
paul
