On 07/12/2015 14:07, Tony Jones wrote:
Hey.
Does anyone have a copy of the v6.1 dd image pointed to here: http://www.andys-arcade.net/personal/tech/fluke9100/index.htm "DOWNLOAD THIS" link (task 14) doesn't exist on the server.
I fixed the link, i had to remove it after someone said there was some custom software on it, i finally got to checking it and no there isn't, its a plain image with everything you need to get going.
I ran some low-level scsi diags on the Quantum drive that came with my 9100FT and it's not sensing correctly.
If you are plugging this into a PC, you wont see anything useful, everything will report empty/missing/bad.
So I bought one of the SCSI2SD (codesrc) adapters and a box of DD floppies but one of the two 1.44mb drives I had gathering dust appears to be totally dead and the other I'm having no luck writing to (either from dos utils or teledisk). I tried connecting the Fluke floppy drive to the PC (BIOS configured as 720k) but that didn't work either.
The above dd image, even though it's for a CF card should probably work on a SD. Failing this, I'll have to sort the floppies out.
Good luck on trying that out, i'm running CF here, i have not experimented with SD. If you make it work, post your results.
And on this topic: I noted the above page says "First off, system v6.0 is the newest tested working distribution that works, 6.1 doesn't work because the images were made from bad disks, don't bother with it".
V6.1 disks are serialised to each 9100 customer back in the day i believe, therefor the disk images on flippers wontwork unless you have the 9100 they were sold for. Someone on here worked out a hack on the disk images (including the needed and still absent latest service disk) but has never shared the info.
How does this correlate with the "System_DiscsRV6.1" and "System_DiscsRV6.1_VerifiedOK" folders on flippers.com, especially the second? I searched for 6.1 in the mail-archives and couldn't find any answers.
Neither worked for me, ymmv. The v6.1 compactflash image that i created came from a direct hard-disk lift from another working setup, therefore side-stepping the serialised floppy disk problem.
Finally, do I require a (scsi driver) ROM upgrade for the 9100FT? The FT mainboard is different from the A, no u46/u47. I assume the equivalent FT is @U26, mine is labelled v1.3 but I can't see anything but the updated 5.0 A versions in the archives.
I'm running V1.3 and have not changed them, because nobody has come up with a later dumped chip. For reasons that should be obvious, don't put a 9100A bios chip in the 9100FT :)
Thanks!
enjoy -- Andrew Welburn http://www.andys-arcade.com _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com https://pairlist7.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/