> Since I've got a nice Pro380 with a few options, such as the
> decna adapter, what would be the most flexible setup for this
> machine? I'd really like to work with this machine but am not too
> impressed with POS.
>
> Jeff
You've got a DECNA for it? Wow! Lucky bum!
I'd say your best choice for an OS would be RT-11 with the free TCP/IP
stack. In fact I think that's about the only way you'll be able to use the
DECNA interface.
Zane
> The DECNA isn't too useful outside of a DECnet then? Does
> RT-11 support the RD-52? I know that the docs for Venix state that
> there's a problem with using Venix and the RD-52 together. How hard
> is it to get the RX-50 disks of RT-11 and to straighten out all the
> licensing issues?
Can you get DECnet for POS? Good luck getting it for RT-11, and even if you
do, I don't know if it would support the DECNA. RT-11 shouldn't have any
problem with RD52's.
As for the RX50's of RT-11 and licensing issues, that's the tricky part.
You probably don't want to know what a license costs.
Zane
Well, I just wanted to thank you all for suggesting Teledisk and
prodding me into setting up a system that will let me archive my iPDS
(Intel Personal Development System) diskettes. As background, this
computer uses a 96tpi, double sided 5.25" diskette drive. That amounts
to approximately 640k of storage, without my calculating it exactly.
Teledisk 2.12 works on that format using a 1.2M HD drive, and it seems
to work perfectly. I made a system diskette image and recreated a
workable diskette from the image.
For me, finding a system with a 5.25" drive was the challenge. I
realized in this process that I didn't have any at my house, but I had
several old Zenith SupersPort, SupersPort 286, and SupersPort SX
laptops. They can access an external drive and I had some Zenith
external drives. Unfortunately Zenith never marketed anything but a
48tpi (360k Bytes) drive. Tonight I was able to figure out the
jumpering for that drive and put a 1.2M HD drive into that package and
make it work with Teledisk.
In a former life I had used Teledisk and forgotten how useful it was.
Anyway, the point of this post is to offer anyone who would like them
images of system diskettes for the Intel iPDS. I have CP/M 2.2 straight
>from Intel, CP/M 2.2 with my enhanced BIOS, ISIS-PDS (Intel's operating
system), and many ISIS applications (like the EPROM software, IPPS). I
would be happy to e-mail anyone the Teledisk images from anything that I
have for that machine. Just ask me privately for what you'd like. I
think I even have a CP/M Plus that I implemented for that system. All
you would need is Teledisk and a system with a 1.2M HD drive to recreate
bootable diskettes for the iPDS.
And to Sellam, I know I told you I'd mail you diskettes. This is to ask
if you'd prefer images. You'll get them faster. ;-)
--
Dave Mabry dmabry(a)mich.com
Dossin Museum Underwater Research Team
NACD #2093
> If a PC cannot, can a mac do it? I've got a performa or quadra just waiting
> to do something here.
No.
However, a PC with a Catweasel board can.
Zane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca]
> OK what was the AMIGA that ran both AMIGA and PC software ... (286 +
> 68000 )
> cpu cards on a PC style box. Did that have a special software to write
> PC disks?
> I saw one once - but it was sure slow!
That was the 2000, I think. Slow or not, I've been after one for a while, myself. :) Well, actually any amiga that's newer than my 1000... ;)
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
> Certainly the PC hardware, regardless of OS or other software
> can NOT do
> Amiga.
> Can the Linux catweasel drivers actually use the catweasel as its disk
> controller for the file system? Or is this an issue that the
> catweasel
> software (that does NOT work at a filesystem level) can also RUN under
> linux?
Right, but remember that linux won't run only on peesees. :) Linux on a power-mac (or amiga!) will likely produce bit-for-bit copies of amiga disks just fine.
Also, I think it's the standard linux floppy disk driver, which is pretty flexible, and not a special "catweasel" driver, so it would be handled just the same as a standard floppy setup. So I guess you could write ext2 filesystems to 880k floppies if you want ;)
Or ... one could write an amiga filesystem for linux. I actually wonder why this hasn't been done.
> Has anybody, anywhere, EVER gotten a catweasel to work as a
> controller to
> do file system level operations?
After this discussion, I'm tempted to get one and try. Too bad I can't afford it just now.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
If a PC cannot, can a mac do it? I've got a performa or quadra just waiting
to do something here.
--
Antique Computer Virtual Museum/home of command central south
www.nothingtodo.org
> Someone the other day made reference to old-style and late-
>model SUN 13w3
>monitor cables. What's the difference between the two?
Hi,
I think there that the difference is in SYNC signals. The old
one had only composite SYNC and the new probbaly could provide
also V and H SYNC
Look to:
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/interfacing.html#v
ga_13w3
Darek
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tylko Nowy Kontakt umo?liwia rozmowy przez inne komunikatory internetowe!
Poznaj 100 mln nowych znajomych! Instalujesz? Kliknij! < http://kontakt.wp.pl >
On Jan 3, 13:12, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
> > The "standard linux floppy disk driver" will operate the
> > Catweasel card?
> > (It is NOT a floppy disk controller in terms of BIOS level
> > interaction.)
>
> I was under the impression that it would drive a catweasel card. I was
not aware that the card was significantly different than other (normal
peesee) floppy interfaces, though, so perhaps I got the wrong idea from
somewhere.
As far as I was able to determine, when I looked into this in the autumn,
the only support for the Catweasel under Linux is via a special driver
called cwfloppy, NOT the normal floppy driver. This works with Amiga disks
(and has limited MS-DOS support) only, and only for the ISA version on x86
and Alpha machines. Quote from the Catweasel page, ISA version section:
'Writing to disks is only possible under Linux at the moment. The
drivers are not designed to be easy-to-use. Instead, they are tools
"for-freaks-only". You can read disk images from the formats listed
above, and single files can be copied from Amiga, PC and C-64 disks.'
If you look at the driver homepage, it doesn't even mention C-64 or disk
images. There are some additional utilities to allow it to do things with
TRS80 disks, though.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Jan 3, 8:53, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Personally, I plan to pick something that is _not_ a drop-in replacement
> for a DEC drive - I can format all sorts of stuff on an RQDX3, but it's
> nice to stick to the right models when you can to make drive geometry
> tables in the OS and/or drivers match.
Sensible idea. And RQDX1/RQDX2 need the "right" drives; they do bizarre
tests to see what they have connected (like stepping to illegal tracks) and
won't work unless the drive matches something hardcoded into the RQDX
"microcode".
> Have you formatted this drive on another controller and scanned for
> bad blocks? I know the RQDX3 has a "standard" way of handling them
> (well... standard for the RQDX line), so I'm not sure there's a
> "factory BBL" to reference
Not on MFM/ST412-type drives, no.
> or if there is, that the DQ614 does reference
> it, but I would see if the drive passes a low-level format on something
> else, perhaps a WD1003 in an old 486 that still has the format option
> in the BIOS menu. You could also try it on a WX-1 with its BIOS
> formatter (accessed through debug, typically).
The DQ614P program should include several controller and drive exercises
and tests, and a bad block (actually a bad track) utility.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
