Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
No. Why? Because I actually know exactly how magnetic data
recording, floppy disks, floppy disk controllers, floppy controller
device drivers, and "dd" work.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
Have you actually used dd for this and had it not work?
Bob
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Bob Stewart <bob@...>
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
[replying to my own email, man I must be tired]
I neglected to insert a paragraph regarding on-disk physical formats.
As I mentioned earlier, FM, MFM, and GCR encoding for bit
representation.
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
...except what is meant by "1" or "0" when you're encoding bits in
different types of flux transmissions? Are you aware of, for example,
FM, MFM, and GCR?
If what you're saying were true, there
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
No.
Strictly speaking, you're correct, "dd" itself doesn't care about disk
formats. However, the underlying device driver does, and the floppy
disk controller chip underneath that does.
The
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
S ame in my experience. ?I have copied DOS discs, UNIX disks, ATARI discs, etc. ?It is is like doing a bit copy on a HD, ¡°1 or 0¡±
Larry
AC9OX
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Larry McElhiney
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
"dd" doesn't care about disk formats.? It reads records sequentially and it writes records sequentially.? Unless they've put deliberate bad sectors on the disk, dd should work.
Bob
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Bob Stewart <bob@...>
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
There's virtually no chance of this working. This will only work if
the disk is written in one of the few disk formats that are standard on
PCs, which, as I understand it, the 4145A's is not.
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Difference between 4145A and B units
The original, working, HP-labeled boot disk in my 4145A is *not*
hard-sectored.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
In my experience (from UNIX on), the dd command will copy anything except master diskettes which have a laser-shot hole in the medium for copy protection. ?Also slower (smaller chunks) seems more
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Larry McElhiney
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#116284
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Copying 4145A floppy - a suggestion
"The "A" version uses a 5.25" diskette drive. The boot diskette is hard sector
with a weird format that I've not been able to copy."
I've renamed this to hopefully avoid threadjacking.
If you have
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Bob Stewart <bob@...>
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Re: Difference between 4145A and B units
"Matt Huszagh" <huszaghmatt@...> wrote:
The "A" version uses a 5.25" diskette drive. The boot diskette is hard sector
with a weird format that I've not been able to copy.
The "B" version uses
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Lyle Bickley
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#116282
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Re: 4145B software disk
Hi Wayne,
I'd be really interested to know the process for the A unit if you've written something up. This seems like a great solution.
Thanks!
Matt
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Matt Huszagh
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Difference between 4145A and B units
Hello,
In what ways is the 4145B an upgrade from the 4145A? The B seems to sell
for quite a bit more money. But, a quick look at the manual
specifications seems to indicate they have similar
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
Hello,
and my ass awaits email at
tamhan (aeht) tamoggemon (roundthing) com.
Incidentially, it looks like my private health insurance company FINALLY is able to get me lined up for a SinoPharm or
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Tam Hanna
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#116279
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FREE CRT house cleaning
I'm in the process of thinning my "stuff" collection. I have a number of CRTs
I would like to find a home for. Some are Tex, some HP, and some just generic
CRTs. I got these many years ago from a
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Mark Pilant
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#116278
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
Joarez, I'll drop you an email, I don't wanna bother you during holidays on
whatsapp haha...
[email protected]> wrote:
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Bernardo Santos
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#116277
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
I've had problems with these Fets on an HP8569 unit they didn't have the specified features
Below my email and whatsapp
Joarez Siczkoriz
(11)92002 0894
jsiczkoriz@...
Em quinta-feira,
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joarez siczkoriz
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#116276
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Re: HP PN 1855-0418 Part Identification Help
Tam,
Thank you very much for your kind offer, I will let you know if I need
something, that's very kind of you to offer.
Joarez,
Can you share your e-mail so I can contact you directly? I'm not
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Bernardo Santos
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#116275
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Re: How to fix broken HP key
Imagine that some of us don't have perfect memory, and
although we have read the entire thread, its details were
softened as the thread dribbled in over several days (weeks?).
Me personally, I read
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Chuck Harris
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#116274
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