Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

2023-12-13 Thread runrin
it's also very possible that i made a mistake when i initially reassembled the thing. it was very fiddly to get everything back together. i'll let you know if i find anything interesting. On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 02:36:18PM -0800, runrin wrote: > unfortunately format fails with the same error.

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Brian K. White
Is it worth trying to come up with some surgery bodge procedure to upgrade a 256K unit to 512? It's a very small change and although there is an added part and it's tiny and not easy to solder wires to, it's probably actually possible to cut a few traces and add the new part with fine

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 13, 2023, at 1:34 PM, Brian Brindle wrote: > > building up a CP/M emulation environment on the TanPi Feel free to reach out about this off-list. I've done a fair bit of fooling around with the various CP/M emulation environments and have found RunCPM to work *really* well as a daily

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

2023-12-13 Thread runrin
unfortunately format fails with the same error. i'll try tearing the thing open later and see if i can find anything obviously wrong with it. here's what i got: % VERBOSE=9 ./pdd.sh format get_tpdd_port() Using port "/dev/ttyUSB0" open_com() set_stty() speed 19200 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line =

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Brian Brindle
Haha - Glad you like it Joshua if I do happen to make more or improve on this one I'll let you know. I don't exactly have ADD but what I do seem to have is the inability to control what my current interests are and recently it's been playing with CP/M on the M100, PX-8 and building up a CP/M

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

2023-12-13 Thread Brian K. White
Communication all looks good actually. Cabling and serial port are solid. The problem is only when it issues the initial dirent() as part of the directory listing process, and gets a hardware fault error code from the drive. The drive firmware tried to run the disk and read the media, and

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

2023-12-13 Thread runrin
OK! I think there might be a problem with my PC cable. With a standard 25 pin to 9 pin adapter and a gender changer on my M100 cable, I'm getting some output, but there may be some other issues with the drive or cable. I will paste my results below.

Re: [M100] Question about TPDD/FB100

2023-12-13 Thread Brian K. White
I should write up some steps to verify things, both for the cable and for pdd.sh. It's one thing to say "do this to make this" but then when it doesn't work, then what? Is something broken or did you get a step wrong or are the directions wrong? One thing is with the solder blob in place, you

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:30 AM Brian Brindle wrote: > I had this flagged as a flow control issue, guess it sort of is but what I > was remembering is the T200 using the DTR signal for chip select on the > tone generator. > Hmm, now that rings a bell. (Ba-dump-TI). Maybe that's why it was

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 13, 2023, at 6:22 AM, Brian Brindle wrote: > My whole setup is a total kludge / hack that I never expected to use long > term. I was just doing a POC and built the whole thing in about 10 minutes > with stuff I had laying around but here we are almost five years later... Brian, you

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Brian Brindle
Hi Jonathan, My whole setup is a total kludge / hack that I never expected to use long term. I was just doing a POC and built the whole thing in about 10 minutes with stuff I had laying around but here we are almost five years later... One day I'll get off my butt and make a proper 3d printed

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread jonathan.y...@telia.com
Hello, I know it is starting to be off-topic, but some details about how you did the pi (I assume a zero-w) and the case with the level-shifter would be nice. I've done this with other components, but I've never gotten anything nearly so small. I have a pi-hat with a level shifter, and it

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Brian Brindle
> Also T200 not working with hardware flow control? It used to. Steve ported HTERM to it. I do recall we had issues with the > 19200bps baud rates on the T200. Well, know how part of the theme of this thread is things not happening the way we remember them? I had this flagged as a flow control