All this talk about RL01/02s and RK05s has reminded me that it would be
nice to get the device handler for my dual Xebec hard sector floppy drives
connected to my -8/M. I have only a couple of bootable disks with a couple
of versions of OS/8. A lot of them are corrupted from best I can tell.
I've developed a way to dump all of the readable blocks from disk over the
serial port, which, as you can imagine, does take a while. I've also
developed a little program that can parse the data into RIM format to be
disassembled.
From the OS/8 Software Support Manual, I can see that
the handlers should
be located within blocks 16 through 25, octal. Should I be
attempting to
dump those blocks and try to reverse engineer it that way, or is there a
way in OS/8 to directly dump each individual handler?
Any tips would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kyle