Trade: Fluke 9010A manuals for 9000 manuals
I have a collection of 3 spare 9010A manuals: Programming, Operating and Service, that I would love to trade for similar ones for the 9000 fixture. I know that they are up on spies, but it is a bit much to print those out...(350+ pages!) John :-#)# To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
If anyone has the 9000 unit, the hard drive in them is either a SCSI or a MFM with a SCSI -> MFM interface board. There would be a SCSI port on the rear that you can copy the internal hard-drive to a backup drive (I'm definitely going to do this!) Oh, I also am looking for the probe for the 9000 and have a 9010/90X0 probe for trade. Plus a spare Clock module and some other bits and pieces. I guess I'll post my collection Tuesday and folks can sift through it. John :-#)# To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
If anyone has the 9000 unit, the hard drive in them is either a SCSI or a MFM with a SCSI -> MFM interface board. There would be a SCSI port on the rear that you can copy the internal hard-drive to a backup drive (I'm definitely going to do this!)
Has anyone successfully done this? Since it's a non-PC format, wouldn't the drive have to be copied sector-for-sector and track-for-track (meaning that the destination drive would have to be virtually identical to the source)? Or doesn't that apply in SCSI? Is it SCSI1 or SCSI2? FWIW, the drive in at least one of mine is a WDC model 8425. Couldn't find out much on Western's web site... Alex http://www.elektronforge.com ayeckley@elektronforge.com To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
According to the documents I have, you can copy file either from the hard drive to the floppy OR to an external hard drive. I shall be experimenting with this in the near future, but I suspect you are correct in that the SCSI drive I hook up would need to be formatted to Flukes format. What ever that is...(MAC? It is a 68000 based system I believe) John :-#)# At 10:30 AM 4/15/2001, you wrote:
If anyone has the 9000 unit, the hard drive in them is either a SCSI or a MFM with a SCSI -> MFM interface board. There would be a SCSI port on the rear that you can copy the internal hard-drive to a backup drive (I'm definitely going to do this!)
Has anyone successfully done this? Since it's a non-PC format, wouldn't the drive have to be copied sector-for-sector and track-for-track (meaning that the destination drive would have to be virtually identical to the source)? Or doesn't that apply in SCSI? Is it SCSI1 or SCSI2?
FWIW, the drive in at least one of mine is a WDC model 8425. Couldn't find out much on Western's web site...
Alex http://www.elektronforge.com ayeckley@elektronforge.com
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According to the documents I have, you can copy file either from the hard drive to the floppy OR to an external hard drive. I shall be experimenting with this in the near future, but I suspect you are correct in that the SCSI drive I hook up would need to be formatted to Flukes format. What ever that is...(MAC? It is a 68000 based system I believe)
You can copy files, but not the operating system. Rumor has it that they used a faily sophisticated copy protection scheme. I've also heard that there is a utility out there that will allow you to copy the OS. When I tried to copy it to floppies (as advertised in the manuals) it just sort of hung up (I waited 30+ mins to see what would happen). Alex http://www.elektronforge.com ayeckley@elektronforge.com To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
I have a 9100FT, which I'm assuming the reference to a 9000 is also to.
What ever that is...(MAC? It is a 68000 based system I believe) In the case of the 9100FT, its OS/9 based.
If anyone has the 9000 unit, the hard drive in them is either a SCSI or a MFM with a SCSI -> MFM interface board. There would be a SCSI port on the rear that you can copy the internal hard-drive to a backup drive (I'm definitely going to do this!)
Mine has a MFM drive, with a SASI-to-MFM interface board. The 9100FT has a SASI mainboard interface. SASI pre-dates SCSI, I know their busses are similar, but I'm not sure if SCSI is a drop in replacement. My drive has failed, and I have no boot floppies for the 9100FT. A post for help on some message board somewhere returned a few responses of people that support the 9100FT and may be able to help me get a working SCSI drive and/or floppies. To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
I wonder if those drive duplicators might be in order here. There are the ones that can mirror ANY drive onto another drive, MFM to MFM etc. You see the adds in the pages of Nuts & Volts etc. Anyone have one of those machines? We could 'breed' spare drives then. John :-#)# At 11:25 AM 4/15/2001, you wrote:
I have a 9100FT, which I'm assuming the reference to a 9000 is also to.
What ever that is...(MAC? It is a 68000 based system I believe) In the case of the 9100FT, its OS/9 based.
If anyone has the 9000 unit, the hard drive in them is either a SCSI or a MFM with a SCSI -> MFM interface board. There would be a SCSI port on the rear that you can copy the internal hard-drive to a backup drive (I'm definitely going to do this!)
Mine has a MFM drive, with a SASI-to-MFM interface board. The 9100FT has a SASI mainboard interface. SASI pre-dates SCSI, I know their busses are similar, but I'm not sure if SCSI is a drop in replacement.
My drive has failed, and I have no boot floppies for the 9100FT. A post for help on some message board somewhere returned a few responses of people that support the 9100FT and may be able to help me get a working SCSI drive and/or floppies.
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I wonder if those drive duplicators might be in order here. There are the ones that can mirror ANY drive onto another drive, MFM to MFM etc. You see the adds in the pages of Nuts & Volts etc.
Anyone have one of those machines? We could 'breed' spare drives then.
This company makes tools to read/write OS/9 based disks: http://www.reischke.de/dtr/homepage.htm They list the fluke format specifically: To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
Anyone have one of those machines? We could 'breed' spare drives then. Try that again:
It lists the Fluke format specifically: http://www.reischke.de/dtr/formats.htm I would think if we just wanted a copy, a RAWRITE style copy or Unix 'dd' would allow just to duplicate the drive, without needing file access. The toolkit above would give full access to the drive itself. To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
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