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

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 14:51, John Collyer wrote:
>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
>
Mmm, these are windows programs I assume since they're in zip format?

No windows here, all linux these days, and bleeding (somebody get a 
mop please) edge to boot, this boot is 2.6.0-test9-mm2.

BTW, glad to have you back.  Welcome home.

>----- 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.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
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Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III at 500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP at 1400mhz  512M
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