Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > My vague recollection is that an "application master disk" is supposed
> > to have a file that tells PAM about an application -- things like what
>
> I've got the format of the installation file for the master disk - it's
> in one of the manuals for writing your own applications. But I have no
> idea quite what the installation procedure does with that informaition.
I think I remember knowing it at one time, at least well enough to
fake it when I needed it once -- though whether that was through
reverse engineering the file format or looking at a co-worker's ISV
kit manual I can't recall.
> What about doing a plain sector copy on a PC or something? The disk is a
> standard double-density one so a PC controller should be able to read it.
> Shouldn't be too hard to figure out what sectors are used and copy them over.
Sydex has a shareware device driver that is supposed to let you use
HP150 stiffies directly on a PC-compatible. I tried it a few months
ago on a non-classic (hmm, 7 years to go) Toshiba notebook but it was
not able to read the lone 150-formatted stiffy I had handy. Whether
that is because of newfangled hardware, funky notebook hardware,
inability of the software to handle single-sided stiffies, or bad
vibes I don't know. I am able to read the disk in a 9114B on my
Portable Plus though.
Hmm, maybe I'll try DISKCOPY on it tonight and see if that gets me
another stiffy that the 9114B can read. Cheap thrills.
-Frank McConnell
Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 17:59:00 BST