My main 9100's HD died. Now I have 2 9100's with dead drives. Drive wouldn't spin up, seems stiction raised its ugly head. A quick rap with a tool got the drive spinning again, but alas, the system comes up with an "unable to chk drive: f7" error, and won't boot. Hopefully its just a slight filesystem error and some of the data may be retrievable later, as there were parts libraries and other utilities that I didn't have saved to floppy. <sniff, sniff>
I have a friend with a SCSI drive duplicator and he is attempting to mirror my drive. Results should be known this coming week. Serious drag! If this drive is a MFM masquerading as a SCSI, you might have some success with Spinrite on an older MFM PC. John :-#(# At 09:24 PM 07/06/2002 -0400, Corey Stup wrote:
My main 9100's HD died. Now I have 2 9100's with dead drives.
Drive wouldn't spin up, seems stiction raised its ugly head. A quick rap with a tool got the drive spinning again, but alas, the system comes up with an "unable to chk drive: f7" error, and won't boot. Hopefully its just a slight filesystem error and some of the data may be retrievable later, as there were parts libraries and other utilities that I didn't have saved to floppy.
<sniff, sniff>
If this drive is a MFM masquerading as a SCSI, you might have some success with Spinrite on an older MFM PC. I don't know if I even have a copy of Spinrite anymore. Other than just being able to do the read->write->verify operation, I doubt Spinrite could help much anyway, since this is not a DOS partition.
Both my machines have MFM drives installed with the WD SASI adaptor. One is a 9100A and one is a 9100FT.
I have a friend with a SCSI drive duplicator and he is attempting to mirror my drive. Results should be known this coming week. John :-#(#
At 09:24 PM 07/06/2002 -0400, Corey Stup wrote:
My main 9100's HD died. Now I have 2 9100's with dead drives.
<sniff, sniff>
Here's my 2 credits: If you think you (Corey) had a sad day, be glad it wasn't worse. My *sad* day, about a month or so ago, was when the HDD in my desktop crashed. I've spent the last month, off and on, recovering the data. Not fun; not even remotely fun. Yet I digress. So from the bad comes some good. I'm now not too bad with drives (IMHO). In particular, I can sector copy just about any media. If anyone is interested in having a 9100 HDD imaged to dat or cd or tar/gz file, lmk. AFAIK, no one in my neighborhood (Dallas), has one to image. If you know otherwise, lmk. We can also image the floppies, so they are at least email'able, if not downloadable. IIRC, someone across the pond had a set of original distribution media. Did anyone (over here) ever get a backup of them? I haven't seen the list in a month, so if this has already been resolved, pls ignore. -Mark
At 05:42 am 17 06 02, you wrote:
We can also image the floppies, so they are at least email'able, if not downloadable. IIRC, someone across the pond had a set of original distribution media. Did anyone (over here) ever get a backup of them?
That was me. I was unable to copy them as I could not do it on my PC and my 9100 died before I could do it. They were sent to Chris Hardy for him to duplicate (if you are reading this did you ever manage it?) So assuming we can still copy the disks does anyone have a dead 9100 which they sell me parts from (My HDD and PSU are fine) or a 9010A RS-232 module so I can get at least on fluke working usefully? Dave Langley www.robotron-2084.co.uk
They were sent to Chris Hardy for him to duplicate (if you are reading this did you ever manage it?)
Can we get our hands on them again? If so, I can back them up, so we can have some geographically distrubuted backups.
So assuming we can still copy the disks does anyone have a dead 9100 which they sell me parts from (My HDD and PSU are fine) or a 9010A RS-232 module so I can get at least on fluke working usefully? Dave Langley
Dunno about that, but the other thing that comes to mind, is, if we image the fluke hdd to a larger (logically), smaller (physically) hdd, the new drive will assume the geometry of the image. Anotherwords, we don't need the same drive (unless there is security, which I doubt). -Mark
Dunno about that, but the other thing that comes to mind, is, if we image the fluke hdd to a larger (logically), smaller (physically) hdd, the new drive will assume the geometry of the image. Anotherwords, we don't need the same drive (unless there is security, which I doubt).
In the setup menu, I remember there is a selection for WHICH model HDD you have. 3 or 4 models were listed. I would suspect, that if you don't have one of these models, the software won't all you to continue. I believe I remember reading this in the manual (which prompted me to check out the models listed), but I can't remember where.
IF someone can come up with a method for doing this I definitely would be interested in having my hard drive duplicated (before it is too late). The floppy imaging thing is interesting. Even for exchanging canned programs with those without a programmers station it would be handy. I haven't figured a way to use the 232 port for uploading/downloading programs if you don't have a programmers station. Kev
If anyone is interested in having a 9100 HDD imaged to dat or cd or tar/gz file, lmk. AFAIK, no one in my neighborhood (Dallas), has one to image. If you know otherwise, lmk.
We can also image the floppies, so they are at least email'able, if not downloadable. IIRC, someone across the pond had a set of original distribution media. Did anyone (over here) ever get a backup of them?
I haven't seen the list in a month, so if this has already been resolved, pls ignore.
-Mark
They have different merits. One get's you a backup of *your* image, possibly configured for a specific model or configuration of options, the other gets you the distro media. Where are you located?
IF someone can come up with a method for doing this I definitely would be interested in having my hard drive duplicated (before it is too late).
The floppy imaging thing is interesting. Even for exchanging canned programs with those without a programmers station it would be handy. I haven't figured a way to use the 232 port for uploading/downloading programs if you don't have a programmers station.
Kev
If anyone is interested in having a 9100 HDD imaged to dat or cd or tar/gz file, lmk. AFAIK, no one in my neighborhood (Dallas), has one to image. If you know otherwise, lmk.
We can also image the floppies, so they are at least email'able, if not downloadable. IIRC, someone across the pond had a set of original distribution media. Did anyone (over here) ever get a backup of them?
I haven't seen the list in a month, so if this has already been resolved, pls ignore.
-Mark
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