18 Jan
2018
18 Jan
'18
4:46 p.m.
I'd been trying to reach Dave Dunfield with new TestFDC results since
apparently August with no results. So, I wrote a new TestFDC registry into
my site:
https://services.theglitchworks.net/ng/testfdc_results
This registry currently includes Dave's last registry update from 2007.
There's now a form for entering your results, you can find it as a link
from the registry, or here:
https://services.theglitchworks.net/ng/testfdc_results/new
Result submissions have to be manually approved currently so that the
registry doesn't get spammed. Text export forthcoming. Any suggestions
welcome!
Moderators, if someone wants to sticky this (here or in other forums), I
think this would be a valuable resource for anyone wanting to use ImageDisk
on non-PC formats.
Thanks,
Jonathan
18 Jan
18 Jan
8:50 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:46 AM, systems_glitch via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'd been trying to reach Dave Dunfield with new
TestFDC results since
apparently August with no results. So, I wrote a new TestFDC registry into
my site:
https://services.theglitchworks.net/ng/testfdc_results
Thank you for doing this! It's a valuable resource for us
disk-imagers and really needed an update. Maybe we can find other
"full pass" cards and I can stop hoarding Adaptec 1522s :)
-j
9:46 p.m.
On 18 Jan 2018, at 15:46, systems_glitch via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'd been trying to reach Dave Dunfield with new TestFDC results since
apparently August with no results. So, I wrote a new TestFDC registry into
my site:
https://services.theglitchworks.net/ng/testfdc_results
Gaaaah, talk about the wrong timing for this XD. I say this because I just bought an
AHA-1524CF on various folk?s recommendations (not from here) a couple of weeks ago only to
find I still couldn?t really manipulate SSSD images then tonight I read a message on VCFED
from our own Chuck Guzis saying there were two controller chips in the 1542CF (national
and broken Intel) and I discovered I had a broken Intel one.
I may have cussed.
Typically all the AHA-1522s are in the US, sigh.
Cheers,
?
Adrian/Witchy
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10:17 p.m.
Does someone have results for the Siliconsonic / Individual computers
Catweasel MK4 plus? IF not I will put that on my list of to-do's.
I added a link to this onto my web site in the links section and the
archiving info thread.
Bill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 18 Jan 2018, at 15:46, systems_glitch via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'd been trying to reach Dave Dunfield with new TestFDC results since
apparently August with no results. So, I wrote a new TestFDC registry
into
Gaaaah, talk about the wrong timing for this XD. I say this because I just
bought an AHA-1524CF on various folk?s recommendations (not from here) a
couple of weeks ago only to find I still couldn?t really manipulate SSSD
images then tonight I read a message on VCFED from our own Chuck Guzis
saying there were two controller chips in the 1542CF (national and broken
Intel) and I discovered I had a broken Intel one.
I may have cussed.
Typically all the AHA-1522s are in the US, sigh.
Cheers,
?
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
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f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
10:36 p.m.
Will, I wasn't aware the CW MK4+ had a legacy floppy controller on it
(i.e. ports 3fx, DMA 2, IRQ 6 setup with NEC 765 command set). The CWs
that I have (a MK3 and a MK1) are all sui generis devices not supported
by off-the-shelf software. In particularly, I don't think they'll work
with, say, IMD, or AnaDisk.
--Chuck
On 01/18/2018 01:17 PM, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
Does someone have results for the Siliconsonic /
Individual computers
Catweasel MK4 plus? IF not I will put that on my list of to-do's.
I added a link to this onto my web site in the links section and the
archiving info thread.
Bill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
--
--Chuck
Sent from my digital computer
On 18 Jan 2018, at 15:46, systems_glitch via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'd been trying to reach Dave Dunfield with new TestFDC results since
apparently August with no results. So, I wrote a new TestFDC registry
into
Gaaaah, talk about the wrong timing for this XD. I say this because I just
bought an AHA-1524CF on various folk?s recommendations (not from here) a
couple of weeks ago only to find I still couldn?t really manipulate SSSD
images then tonight I read a message on VCFED from our own Chuck Guzis
saying there were two controller chips in the 1542CF (national and broken
Intel) and I discovered I had a broken Intel one.
I may have cussed.
Typically all the AHA-1522s are in the US, sigh.
Cheers,
?
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
w: binarydinosaurs.co.uk t: @binarydinosaurs
f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
10:57 p.m.
Please, call me Bill :-)
I have a system with a Catweasel and a connection to the motherboard, I am
unsure how I have it set up as it has been many years since I opened the
box. I have to see what I am doing in there. It's a dual-boot system
that goes into either Win 2000 or DOS 6.22, but I forget how the catweasel
is hooked up and wither I use it with image disk or not.
Bill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Will, I wasn't aware the CW MK4+ had a legacy
floppy controller on it
(i.e. ports 3fx, DMA 2, IRQ 6 setup with NEC 765 command set). The CWs
that I have (a MK3 and a MK1) are all sui generis devices not supported
by off-the-shelf software. In particularly, I don't think they'll work
with, say, IMD, or AnaDisk.
--Chuck
On 01/18/2018 01:17 PM, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
--
--Chuck
Sent from my digital computer
Does someone have results for the Siliconsonic /
Individual computers
Catweasel MK4 plus? IF not I will put that on my list of to-do's.
I added a link to this onto my web site in the links section and the
archiving info thread.
Bill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On 18 Jan 2018, at 15:46, systems_glitch via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'd been trying to reach Dave Dunfield with new TestFDC results since
>> apparently August with no results. So, I wrote a new TestFDC registry
> into
>> my site:
>>
>> https://services.theglitchworks.net/ng/testfdc_results
>
> Gaaaah, talk about the wrong timing for this XD. I say this because I
just
> bought an AHA-1524CF on various folk?s
recommendations (not from here) a
> couple of weeks ago only to find I still couldn?t really manipulate SSSD
> images then tonight I read a message on VCFED from our own Chuck Guzis
> saying there were two controller chips in the 1542CF (national and
broken
Intel)
and I discovered I had a broken Intel one.
I may have cussed.
Typically all the AHA-1522s are in the US, sigh.
Cheers,
?
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
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11:32 p.m.
On 01/18/2018 01:57 PM, william degnan wrote:
Please, call me Bill :-)
I have a system with a Catweasel and a connection to the motherboard,? I
am unsure how I have it set up as it has been many years since I opened
the box.? ? I have to see what I am doing in there.? It's a dual-boot
system that goes into either Win 2000 or DOS 6.22, but I forget how the
catweasel is hooked up and wither I use it with image disk or not.?
Okay, so who was it on this list wanted to be called Will? At any
rate, Bill, I'll file that away for future reference.
I really doubt that IMD will do anything with the CW MK4.
Another rule of thumb is that if a motherboard is post-P4 and lacks a
parallel port, it's unlikely that it'll give any useful results with
TESTFDC. I think the floppy facility was included mostly for
high-density *read* compatibility.
I've had some decent results with P4 and Socket 939 motherboards but
after that, not so much. I don't know if that's a bright-line rule, but
it seems to hold with my gear.
--Chuck
19 Jan
19 Jan
9:38 a.m.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've had some decent results with P4 and Socket
939 motherboards but
after that, not so much. I don't know if that's a bright-line rule, but
it seems to hold with my gear.
My quite current Socket AM3+ board with six-core CPU and 16GB of RAM (to
be precise, an ASrock 890FX Deluxe5) has a floppy connector (one of the
reason I chose that board), and it supports FM and MFM.
Christian
18 Jan
18 Jan
11:37 p.m.
On 01/18/2018 12:46 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
Gaaaah, talk about the wrong timing for this XD. I say
this because I
just bought an AHA-1524CF on various folk?s recommendations (not from
here) a couple of weeks ago only to find I still couldn?t really
manipulate SSSD images then tonight I read a message on VCFED from
our own Chuck Guzis saying there were two controller chips in the
1542CF (national and broken Intel) and I discovered I had a broken
Intel one.
I may have cussed.
Perhaps all is not lost. I'd have to go and look at my 1542CF, but I
believe that I discovered that it uses either the Intel 82077 or the
National PC8477 chip.
That being the case, if you're handy, you can simply replace the Intel
chip with the National one. They're pretty much pin-compatible (the NSC
one requires a couple fewer external components).
There are many other SCSI controllers that have decent FDCs. I've had
good luck with Ultrastor and Future Domain cards, for example.
--Chuck
19 Jan
19 Jan
1:58 a.m.
manipulate
SSSD images then tonight I read a message on VCFED from
our own Chuck Guzis saying there were two controller chips in the
1542CF (national and broken Intel) and I discovered I had a broken
Intel one.
I may have cussed.
Perhaps all is not lost. I'd have to go and look at my 1542CF, but I
believe that I discovered that it uses either the Intel 82077 or the
National PC8477 chip. That being the case, if you're handy, you can
simply replace the Intel
chip with the National one. They're pretty much pin-compatible (the NSC
one requires a couple fewer external components).
I could, but I guess by the time I?ve sourced a replacement I might as well have bought an
AHA-1522A instead, I have a couple of scouts out looking for them as we speak :) The 1522A
is a full pass for TESTFDC.
There are many other SCSI controllers that have decent FDCs. I've had
good luck with Ultrastor and Future Domain cards, for example.
I noticed a couple of boards on the list that I might?ve gone past in the ?spare old
boards? box at work earlier and discounted because they were too ?new?, an Asus one and
Aopen one which are both Athlon based. They both do SSSD so it?s also an avenue worth
pursuing.
Cheers!
?
Adrian/Witchy
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