22 Oct
2001
22 Oct
'01
1:54 p.m.
Any tools for reading non-PC 5 1/4" HD floppies out there? Tried reading them
with DOS DEBUG, get 'Data Error'.
22 Oct
22 Oct
3:01 p.m.
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Jim Donoghue wrote:
Any tools for reading non-PC 5 1/4" HD floppies
out there? Tried reading them
with DOS DEBUG, get 'Data Error'.
DEBUG can only read legitimate MS-DOS disks.
For low-density ("360k"), Trakcess on the TRS-80 model III.
Central point option board, TE program.
Morgan Computing's Disk Toolkit (only for 512 byte per sector)
XenoCopy-PC
INT 13h
programming the FDC directly.
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XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
23 Oct
23 Oct
8:45 a.m.
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9:41 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
Using FDRAWCMD requires a bit of knowledge of the 8272
disk controller,
and since the documentation is non-existant (:-(), you have to read the
kernel sources as well. But I managed it, and I am not a programmer.
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Tony, please cut the bullshit already.
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7:15 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
Does the above make me clueless. IMHO not (although it
may mean I am
not a programemr). There are probably people here who don't understand
some of the hardware-related things that are second-nature to me. I
don't regard such people as clueless, just that they have different
knowledge. I probably wouldn't consider some of those people to be
hardware hackers though. And in much the same way I don't consider
myself to be a programmer.
Maybe I've over-estimated you, but I still think you're being modest ;)
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11:55 a.m.
Sellam Ismail skrev:
Tony, please cut the bullshit already.
Go to hell, Ismail. There is a name for your disease, and it?s called
rudeness. Why do you feel such an urge to insult everyone and everything on
this list?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
A conservative is a worshipper of dead radicals.
4:11 p.m.
I generally don't like certain rudenesses used indescriminantly,
maybe more than most. Here I understood Sellam to be making
humor, or at least that's how I saw it this time.
Recalibrate the unversal translator, Mr. Drougge.
John A.
7:20 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Allain wrote:
I generally don't like certain rudenesses used
indescriminantly,
maybe more than most. Here I understood Sellam to be making
humor, or at least that's how I saw it this time.
Yes, thank you.
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7:13 p.m.
On 23 Oct 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
Go to hell, Ismail. There is a name for your disease,
and itäs called
rudeness. Why do you feel such an urge to insult everyone and
everything on this list?
Hahahaha. That's funny. You're being facetious right? I mean, you're
the one that is always telling people to go to hell and all.
Time for your medication.
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24 Oct
24 Oct
6:54 a.m.
Sellam Ismail skrev:
On 23 Oct 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Go to hell, Ismail. There is a name for your
disease, and it?s called
> rudeness. Why do you feel such an urge to insult everyone and
> everything on this list?
Hahahaha. That's funny. You're being
facetious right? I mean, you're
the one that is always telling people to go to hell and all.
Unlike you, that's not unprovokedly. You seem to insult people whenever it
fancies you, whether it's needed or not. If this were a classroom, you'd be
the one in the special class, after having been removed from the back row.
You're just being disruptive. Even your arch-nemesis, that one with the
germanesque name, is more contributive than you.
Time for your medication.
Go to hell, Ismail.
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En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
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/ /_/ /_/ /_/ . /_/ / /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ /-'
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5:36 p.m.
On 24 Oct 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
Go to hell, Ismail.
Thanks! :)
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23 Oct
23 Oct
10:47 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
INT 13h
Roughlky at a level between those 2 :
Linux : FDRAWCMD ioctl()
This lets you send an arbitrary set of command bytes to the FDC (allowing
you to do anything that the FDC is capable of), but it handles the DMA
controller (and aligning the buffer not across a 64K boundary) for you.
It's nice that it would do that for you.
FORMAT didn't even include code to do that right! If its buffer
straddled an absolute address divisable by 64K, it would fail, and blame
the diskette!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
<A HREF= "http://www.xenosoft.com/dogears" >DogEars</A>
11:38 a.m.
New subject: touch screens and linux?
I found two touchscreens 12x9.5in, evidently for a 15 in monitor, with a
serial 9pin doodad connector attached.
Anybody know any linux pgms avail for this?
Fred
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