Re: I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

Thanks Alexadre! I thought I was so close when I finally got XTIDE to recognize my flash card. FDISK worked OK too. FORMAT did not, and the error was: Drive not ready I thought there was something else wrong, my bus size on XTIDE config, who knows. I reflashed, but that failed, locking

Re: I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Alexandre Souza wrote: Simple way I got several XT-IDE working: - Boot with freedos boot disk - FDISK /MBR - FDISK and create ONE 31MB partition (note it is 31MB and not 32MB) It SHOULD be possible to create an almost 2GB partition with DOS 3.31 or above. Has to be

Re: I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

Simple way I got several XT-IDE working: - Boot with freedos boot disk - FDISK /MBR - FDISK and create ONE 31MB partition (note it is 31MB and not 32MB) - Reboot - Format C: /s /u (the /u is very important) - REBOOT. There is a bug on freedos that a copy command gives a heap corruption after a

Re: I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Randy Dawson wrote: I have a Compact Flash adapter and card, while I wait for the soldering iron to heat up and make the power cable for it, I wanted to ask, what are the next steps? FORMAT, or FDISK /MBR? It is not clear what you are attempting to do. If you have a

Re: I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

I just did this for cards based on the Lo-tech CF card adapter in both a original XT and also a PC Convertible (5140) . I found that not all CF cards work especially on the version in the Convertible, but can greatly increase the likely hood of success buy wiping the first few "cylinders"

I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

Yippie! But what a long haul it was. Just getting the data on a disk that I could read was a nightmare. I bought a USB 3.5 floppy drive (Sabrent SBT-UFDB, $19 at Frys), and it does not write 720K reliably. Comments on the net say it does not work, under windows 7 lots of errors, but

Re: Looking to read past EOT on DDS/DLT/LTO

On 01/27/2017 03:41 PM, Stan Sieler wrote: > My recollection is that DDS-1 (and perhaps -2?) had 'set marks' that > few people knew about, and even fewer ever used. The explanation I > recall is that the drive could do a "forward to next setmark" *much* > faster than "forward to next EOF".

Re: Looking to read past EOT on DDS/DLT/LTO

Hi, Maciej mentioned "winding a tape past a medium error and read...". I have several times successfully skipped past media errors on DDS-1 drives by doing a FSF (Forward Skip File ... tells drive to skip to the next EOF). (Although, IIRC, once I encountered a read error, I couldn't do that ...

Re: ISO: Documentation for a Northern Scientific NS-600

Found this on http://www.biotechprofiles.com/madisonCompanies/legacy/default.aspx Tracor Northern Founded as Northern Scientific in the early 1960s by William F. Buffo and Robert Schumann (who also founded Nicolet). In 1966, the company was sold to Tracor Inc., adopting the name Tracor

Re: Anyone have the service guide for a Sanyo VM4209 monitor?

> On Jan 26, 2017, at 17:15, Al Kossow wrote: > > it took a month but http://www.manuals-in-pdf.com did finally come through > with a manual > i stuck it up on > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98434900/VM4509_SM_SANYO_EN.pdf > for now Thanks for sharing that, Al. One

Re: Looking to read past EOT on DDS/DLT/LTO

Also, prior to servo tracks on serpentine drives, there was a full-width erase head, so if you rewrite from BOT, ALL tracks are erased as it rolls to EOT. The trick with killing power on 8mm and DAT works because they use helical recording. On 1/26/17 6:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/26/2017

Re: ISO: Documentation for a Northern Scientific NS-600

There is a small chance someone at Nicolet may remember this Tracor/Northern was in Middleton, very near by. I don't remember if this was the origin of their DSO line http://www.theoscilloscopeshop.com/nicolet-oscilloscopes.html On 1/26/17 11:07 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: >

Re: Looking to read past EOT on DDS/DLT/LTO

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 09:01:21PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote: > > > On Jan 26, 2017, at 1:23 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Nico de Jong wrote: > > > >> I did some research, and the most reasonable outcome was that it was not > >> possible by

Re: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference

On 1/26/2017 8:37 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Even the phrase "shipped" need not be when the customer starts printing out the nine billion names of god. That was a printout ... not card I/O. (1953, so it predates the 7074) Great Story! -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com

Re: recursive emulation

On 25 January 2017 at 00:19, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > In the RiscPC era they used actual Intel processors instead of (or was > it as an alternative to) software emulation. The Risc PC had a 2nd processor slot. It wasn't able to be a full SMP machine, but there were

Re: recursive emulation (was: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference)

On 24 January 2017 at 18:46, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > This allowed us to figure out that an 8 MHz ARM2 would be able to > run PC programs at nearly the speed of a 4.77 MHz 8088. Though there > were much faster PCs at the time, the original configuration was still > being

Re: Anyone have the service guide for a Sanyo VM4209 monitor?

So that place was legit... That was my concern with those sites out there. They were top google hits and all seems a little too scam like. It seemed more like when you search for an old part and all those "resellers" come up with "stock" and all they are doing is sourcing from one guy in