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"Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I strongly suspect it will require 720k disks. Most of the HP disk
> drives do and they WILL NOT accept a 1.44Mb disk.
That shouldn't be a big problem, I just found a bunch of old antivirus update
disks (dated 1994!) in a drawer, so I've reformatted the disks. That leaves
me with a small stack of 720K floppies, ready for re-using.
> >Is it possible to duplicate the operating system boot disk using standard
> >hardware (i.e. a PC or my RISC PC)?
>
> Teledisk should be able to do it. The LIF Utilities should be able to
> read and write the disks and tranfer the contents to a PC.
Hmm, I've never used Teledisk, but I've got a copy of CopyIIPC6 on my 33MHz
386 DOS box. Rumour has it the 165xB analysers had a firmware modification
that enabled them to write PC-formatted floppies. I may have to try that out
when the analyser arrives. The problem then becomes a data decoding issue,
rather than a data transfer issue.
Now I just need a GPIB (IEEE-488) interface card (ISA or PCI bus) and a few
GPIB cables. Anyone got some spares?
Thanks.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Laugh ? I nearly paid the poll-tax
Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 12:08:01 BST