27 Oct
2003
27 Oct
'03
10:59 a.m.
I use to have before the fire, a box full of about 50 different 3 1/2's
My eon's ago i was responsible for evaluating 3 1/2's for Tektronix.
Three different types, and you should have seen all the rev's Sony
went through.
The part I remember the most is the convincing the now loosing camps
use to try to put down the Sony design.
I'll see if I still have some of the doc's and such, if i do, I'll put
them on a web site.
-pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt vendel [mailto:curt@atarimuseum.com]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:32 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: vintage 3.5" disk drives
Did Seagate and/or Shugart get into making 3.5" floppy disk drives
around
83/84??? Anyone have pics of very early 3.5" disk drives?
Curt
27 Oct
27 Oct
11:25 p.m.
Pete,
Thats great, thanks, if anyone has any SA300's for sale/trade please let
me know, thanks.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lancashire, Pete" <PLancashire(a)columbia.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:59 PM
Subject: RE: vintage 3.5" disk drives
I use to have before the fire, a box full of about 50
different 3 1/2's
My eon's ago i was responsible for evaluating 3 1/2's for Tektronix.
Three different types, and you should have seen all the rev's Sony
went through.
The part I remember the most is the convincing the now loosing camps
use to try to put down the Sony design.
I'll see if I still have some of the doc's and such, if i do, I'll put
them on a web site.
-pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt vendel [mailto:curt@atarimuseum.com]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:32 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: vintage 3.5" disk drives
Did Seagate and/or Shugart get into making 3.5" floppy disk drives
around
83/84??? Anyone have pics of very early 3.5" disk drives?
Curt
3 Nov
3 Nov
9:47 a.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
Are there any PC (DOS) programs that can
1) Read a CP/M disk
2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
3) Format a CP/M disk
4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
I know there are programs that can do this for just the program and data
files but what about the boot part of the disk. Seems that info could be
saved to a file so that a bootable disk could be restored. What I'm basically
looking for is a program that can backup a CP/M disk (including boot
records) and later restore them to a CP/M disk that would still be bootable.
I have looked at 22Disk but don't see where it can essentially copy and save
a bootable CP/M disk. I have heard about SmartDisk and Media Master but
don't know if they can handle bootable disks so that they can be backed up
and restored to and from a PC (DOS).
Anyone know?
Thanks,
11:01 a.m.
New subject: DUPLICATION of alien formats (was not: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mike Davis wrote:
Are there any PC (DOS) programs that can
1) Read a CP/M disk
2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
3) Format a CP/M disk
4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
I know there are programs that can do this for just the program and data
files but what about the boot part of the disk. Seems that info could be
saved to a file so that a bootable disk could be restored. What I'm basically
looking for is a program that can backup a CP/M disk (including boot
records) and later restore them to a CP/M disk that would still be bootable.
I have looked at 22Disk but don't see where it can essentially copy and save
a bootable CP/M disk. I have heard about SmartDisk and Media Master but
don't know if they can handle bootable disks so that they can be backed up
and restored to and from a PC (DOS).
Anyone know? yes
Most such programs are for the purpose of transferring the contents of a
FILE from one disk format to another. SOME also include the capability of
duplicating a disk, but often ONLY IF the system tracks use a similar
physical format to what is used in the data are (no single density boot
tracks, etc.)
Instead of looking at file transfer disk format conversion products, there
are a few that may be better suited for you.
Look at Teledisk.
Look at CopyII-PC (and at the "Option Board"), and at the
"CatWeasel".
Although most commonly used for unauthorized duplication of
copy-protected disks, it will duplicate many of the disk formats that are
physically possible.
Be aware that SOME disk formats, including a few hundred of the CP/M
formats, are physically impossible to read/write/duplicate using stock PC
hardware. The stock PC hardware can only do MFM with WD style sector
headers. Some formats, such as hard-sectored and GCR can NOT be done
without other hardware. Some other formats, such as FM ("Single Density")
or some invalid headers (such as Kaypro DS), can be done with some FDC's,
with some additional software.
WHAT CP/M format are you trying to do?
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
11:17 a.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Davis" <mike-cc(a)msdsite.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
Are there any PC (DOS) programs that can
1) Read a CP/M disk
2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
3) Format a CP/M disk
4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
I know there are programs that can do this for just the program and data
files but what about the boot part of the disk. Seems that info could be
saved to a file so that a bootable disk could be restored. What I'm
basically
looking for is a program that can backup a CP/M disk
(including boot
records) and later restore them to a CP/M disk that would still be
bootable.
I have looked at 22Disk but don't see where it can essentially copy and
save
a bootable CP/M disk. I have heard about SmartDisk
and Media Master but
don't know if they can handle bootable disks so that they can be backed up
and restored to and from a PC (DOS).
Anyone know?
Thanks,
Sounds like what you need is teledisk. It reads the disk in a bitwise
process an
saves the image as a file that can be used to recreate the original disk.
You can
get it at ftp://ftp.rainingdata.com/freeware/teledisk.zip All you need is
a
drive that's compatable with the original disk(s).
Good Luck
Mike
noon
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
> Are there any PC (DOS) programs that can
> 1) Read a CP/M disk
> 2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
> 3) Format a CP/M disk
> 4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
On Mon, 3
Nov 2003, Mike Cukr wrote:
Sounds like what you need is teledisk. It reads the
disk in a bitwise
process an saves the image as a file that can be used to recreate the
original disk. You can get it at
ftp://ftp.rainingdata.com/freeware/teledisk.zip All you need is a drive
that's compatable with the original disk(s).
good suggestion
but you need a DISK CONTROLLER that is compatible, NOT JUST DRIVE. For
example, Amiga (MFM, but without WD sector headers) and some Commodore 64
formats (GCR) can use very "ordinary" disk drives, but their disk
controllers are different enough that Teledisk can't go near 'em.
1:05 p.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
On 3 Nov 2003 at 18:00, Fred Cisin wrote:
My first need is for an Osborne formatted disc. I know that 22Disk can read
these disks on my PC, so I guess it could read the boot tracks also but that
is not one of the capabilities of 22Disk.
I'll look into TeleDisk and see if that will do the trick.
Thanks
> Are there
any PC (DOS) programs that can
> 1) Read a CP/M disk
> 2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
> 3) Format a CP/M disk
> 4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
On Mon, 3
Nov 2003, Mike Cukr wrote:
Sounds like what you need is teledisk. It reads
the disk in a bitwise
process an saves the image as a file that can be used to recreate the
original disk. You can get it at
ftp://ftp.rainingdata.com/freeware/teledisk.zip All you need is a drive
that's compatable with the original disk(s).
good suggestion
but you need a DISK CONTROLLER that is compatible, NOT JUST DRIVE. For
example, Amiga (MFM, but without WD sector headers) and some Commodore 64
formats (GCR) can use very "ordinary" disk drives, but their disk
controllers are different enough that Teledisk can't go near 'em.
1:19 p.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mike Davis wrote:
My first need is for an Osborne formatted disc. I
know that 22Disk can read
these disks on my PC, so I guess it could read the boot tracks also but that
is not one of the capabilities of 22Disk.
There are two major formats for Osborne disks. (and a few variants)
One of them is "double density", with five 1024 byte sectors on each
track.
The other is single density, with 10 256 byte sectors per track.
I'll look into TeleDisk and see if that will do
the trick.
The double density one might work.
4 Nov
4 Nov
2:14 a.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
On 3 Nov 2003 at 19:19, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mike Davis wrote:
TeleDisk looks like it is going to be too difficult to use. Not sure if it will even
work. It looks like it is for making copies from disks created on the same
platform that the program runs on. That is what I'm after.
I have tried 22Disk. I can take a CP/M disk created on an Osborne and read
and save files to a DOS file. I can format a CP/M disk for the Osborne and
copy files back to the CP/M disk. So, it looks like it's easy to read CP/M
disks on a PC without any special hardware. The only thing missing, that I
need is the ability to save the boot record to a file and restore it to the boot
track.
Seems like that is something that everyone that wants such a conversion
program, would need. But I can't find such a program.
My first need is for an Osborne formatted disc.
I know that 22Disk can read
these disks on my PC, so I guess it could read the boot tracks also but that
is not one of the capabilities of 22Disk.
There are two major formats for Osborne disks. (and a few variants)
One of them is "double density", with five 1024 byte sectors on each
track.
The other is single density, with 10 256 byte sectors per track.
I'll look into TeleDisk and see if that will
do the trick.
The double density one might work.
2:41 a.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
Hi, Mike,
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
On 04-Nov-03 at 08:14 Mike Davis wrote:
<big snip>
The only thing missing, that I need is the ability to
save the boot record to a file
and restore it to the boot track.
Suggestion: Hex Workshop can open a PC's floppy drive as a physical object. That
being the case, and assuming the boot record is not enormous, I wonder if you could simply
reproduce such a thing manually, through direct edit of the disk's tracks?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green, aka Steve Smith)
3 Nov
3 Nov
4:28 p.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
Are there any PC (DOS) programs that can
1) Read a CP/M disk
2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
3) Format a CP/M disk
4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
Yes, IMWIN. (www.farumdata.dk/enimwin.htm)
It will take a photocopy of the disk, and copy the format information
(tracks, sectorlength,....) to the new disk.
Nico
4 Nov
4 Nov
9:55 a.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Nico de Jong wrote:
I assume that if I have to ask the price of IMWIN, I cannot afford it?
Anytime a web site plays so coy about pricing, I know it will be costly.
Are there any
PC (DOS) programs that can
1) Read a CP/M disk
2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or files)
3) Format a CP/M disk
4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
Yes, IMWIN. (www.farumdata.dk/enimwin.htm)
It will take a photocopy of the disk, and copy the format information
(tracks, sectorlength,....) to the new disk.
5:05 p.m.
New subject: CP/M to DOS conversion programs
From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch(a)adelphia.net>
I assume that if I have to ask the price of IMWIN, I cannot afford it?
You would be right, if you would have to buy it. However, as I have the
hardware already available, and it has been paid for by "commercial"
conversion jobs, I have no problem with helping people out, as long as I am
not flooded by it. In your case, it could be considered "last resort", as I
am located in Europe.
Nico
> > Are there any PC (DOS) programs that can
> >
> > 1) Read a CP/M disk
> > 2) Save the contents, including the boot tracks to a DOS file (or
files)
3) Format a CP/M disk
4) Write these files back to the disk, including the boot tracks?
Yes, IMWIN.
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