17 Mar
2002
17 Mar
'02
5:20 a.m.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
I just took a look at the docs for the Series 5 Altos computers and
there is a repair ticket for a Mitsubishi M4853 Disk Drive. The floppy
disk summary docs indicate that drive is a 5.25, HH, 720K, 96 TPI drive.
So, this means I can make disks from image with a vanilla 5.25 1.2M
drive, on a Linux box, right? Assuming I have DSDD floppies and use the
correct device (/dev/fd0D720) with dd?
Alternatively, is there any reason I couldn't temporarily move the
drive itself to a PC to build the disks?
The CP/M version with my Altos 580 is 2.2 Licensed
from Digital Research
by Lambda Software (4 disks.) Each of the six disks I have are labeled
double sided, double density, soft sectored. Of the two other disks, one
is for the 580-20 and is labeled MPM/CPM for Altos 580-20, the other
Altos Diags for model 580-x.
Any chance you could image those for me? Maybe even scan the docs?
Doc