[Coco] Re: 6309 microprocessor project: 11-05-2003

[John Collyer]

Gene, I just check retrieve and dskini and it seems there was an error
dealing with the /8 option.
I fixed them.  I just used retrieve on a 5/14 drive to transfer max10 disk,
but I don't know if my
drive was a 360K or 1.2 MB I assume it's 1.2MB. Go to my website and
download dskini.zip
and retrieve.zip and let me know if this fixed it for you.

http://users.zoominternet.net/~johncollyer/m6309.htm

John Collyer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>; "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Re: 6309 microprocessor project: 11-05-2003


> On Thursday 06 November 2003 13:37, John W. Linville wrote:
> >Nathan Woods wrote:
> >> As for an equivalent of DSKINI.EXE, there is not much chance at
> >> all of avoiding MS-DOS given how Windows does not like 5 1/4"
> >> drives.
> >
> >We should not neglect the use of Linux (especially with MESS).  The
> >fdparm utility can setup the floppy drives for a number of physical
> >formats, after which the "dd" command is quite capable of
> >reading/writing images from/to the drives.
> >
> >Just a thought...
> >
> >John
> >--
> >John W. Linville
> >linville at tuxdriver.com
>
> I've got a mobo, a biostar M7VIB, whose fdc chip cannot do the 5.25"
> formats other than 1.2 megs.  Boisey and I spent the better part of 2
> weeks trying to make it work because I have a bunch of stuff on my
> coco hard drive that really should be archived someplace.  I was
> never able to get a 5.25" drive to work here, and was never able to
> make a 3.5" work on the coco because the decoders in the drive
> insisted on being clocked at 500khz, and refused to work at 250khz.
> I have a usb serial convertor but the software handshaking on one end
> or the other is kaput and the speeds obtained are less than 10cps
> average.  zmodem makes a good transfer, but takes hours to do a 50k
> file.
>
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