5 Jan
2013
5 Jan
'13
8:40 p.m.
Hi Nick,
On Sat Jan 5 2013, Nick Copeland wrote:
Many years ago I would read and write EPS disks using an IDE FDD and a
stock linux kernel. I think this was around the late kernel 2.4 days.
The trick was to use setfdprm(1) to set the correct disk format first
-- and unfortunately, I don't seem to have kept a record of the needed
settings. (The EPS would only use DD disks, while the ASR can use both
DD and HD disks.) This site:
http://yceran.org/eps/
is out-of-date but may point you in the right direction (also google
'ensoniq setfdprm').
I still have the PC with the floppy drive in it. If you end up having a
hard time locating a suitable drive, I could blow the dust bunnies out
of mine and see if it still works.
-Sean
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On 01/05/2013 09:12 AM, Nick Copeland wrote:
Maybe you can buy an internal floppy drive (I'm guessing a 3.5"
floppy) and add it to one of your existing PCs? Floppy disks and
controllers weren't very smart ...
That might work, I think at least one of the PC (they are all laptop)
had anoption for FDD so it might have an IDE connector somewhere.
>
Ensoniq bootable. Does anybody have a 3.5 boot disk with a
> version of OS later than 2.01 (I think this was the version
> that supported the SCSI driver).
A fried of mine had an Ensoniq, and he suggested that you
should
check with
rubber chicken software, who apparently have such
for download.
<http://chickensys.com/kb/eps-asr/index.html>
which might get you the stuff you need. Good luck.
I have a feeling this need an IDE (PATA) floppy. I have four PC
in house and none of them have a floppy. Tested the software
using VM and it failed the boot disk write operation since
Ensoniq had a very proprietary format. dd might be able to write the floppy, too, if you
get a disk image
and a drive that supports that format.
Long shot. DD still only writes blocks so it depends on the
underlying diskdriver for the actual drive format. These are not DOS
or NTFS format so AFAIKthere are no drivers for them on Linux. I did
find a few references for Linux RWtools although they did not support
writing bootable OS disks. Will take one of the older laptops apart
and look for the disk connector types. Regards, nick