Re: formatting and checking floppy disks for bad sectors
WHAT DISK FORMAT? Try bulk erasing your disks before you format them, because if you are reformatting a used disk, the content in the boot sector could confuse the operating system. For PC-DOS, if track 0 is actually bad, then the disk can not be properly used for DOS. It should be destroyed, or used on an operating system that does not need track 0. (many CP/M systems use track 0 as a system track, but don't need it for a data disk) In some versions of DOS, there can be erroneous error messages about track 0 being bad, due to DOS not properly handling attempt to DMA straddling a 64K boundary. If you get the message on all disks, then look at you CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and add or remove a TSR or device driver, so that the TPA (Transient Program Area) will be in a different place. You have not told us which operating system, size and type of diskette, name of the "utility" that you are looking for, What is a "kiooyt"? On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, wdegroot via cctalk wrote: i read / viewes a video on ormattinf a floppy with trk 0 bad i attempted to download the suggested utility bt it returned " filenot foiud: if there is sich a util, can you sedn me the file? it is annoying to have a kiooyt go bad te next tie it is used. sometimes in minutes. i am generaly working wit oder stuss on ss retirement.
Softhome.net
I've been a happy user of a couple email addresses at softhome.net. Recently, one has now failed to let us connect. Sending mail to it from the other gives a mailbox full delivery error. We've tried email to i...@softhome.net and supp...@softhome.net. No response yet on the info one. But I just got a delivery failure on the support one. Does any one have contact info for softhome or can pass the word along? We would really like to empty the one email that won't let us in. Thanks, Keven Miller
Re: formatting and checking floppy disks for bad sectors
i read / viewes a video on ormattinf a floppy with trk 0 bad i attempted to download the suggested utility bt it returned " filenot foiud: if there is sich a util, can you sedn me the file? it is annoying to have a kiooyt go bad te next tie it is used. sometimes in minutes. i am generaly working wit oder stuss on ss retirement.
Re: anyone heard from Cindy Croxton?
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 08:28:36AM -0600, sales--- via cctalk wrote: > This has been a bad 3 months (health-wise) for my family. Best wishes. Let me know if someone from Austin can come be of help. mcl
VTech Laser 3000 / Dick Smith CAT composite video pinout
Hi all. I know I could scope this out, but just wondering if anyone has the pinout for the VTech Laser 3000 / Dick Smith CAT (in Australia) composite video pinout. It’s not in the technical manual that I have, and can’t find it online. Thanks, Chris
Re: anyone heard from Cindy Croxton?
Cindy, I am sorry to hear about your difficulties. I will hold you and yours in my prayers. GOD Bless, rich! On 1/15/2020 8:28 AM, sales--- via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-14 11:24, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: I tried sending an email about a week ago after noticing https://elecshopper.com/ was "down for maintenance" This has been a bad 3 months (health-wise) for my family. I should be back in the office next week. Cindy
Re: anyone heard from Cindy Croxton?
Dear Cindy Hope you and your family get better and stronger in the coming months.. Best Wishes On 15/1/2020, 10:28 PM, "cctalk on behalf of sales--- via cctalk" wrote: On 2020-01-14 11:24, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I tried sending an email about a week ago after noticing > https://elecshopper.com/ > was "down for maintenance" This has been a bad 3 months (health-wise) for my family. I should be back in the office next week. Cindy
Re: anyone heard from Cindy Croxton?
On 2020-01-14 11:24, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: I tried sending an email about a week ago after noticing https://elecshopper.com/ was "down for maintenance" This has been a bad 3 months (health-wise) for my family. I should be back in the office next week. Cindy
Re: Anyone interested in ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, Strip network code?
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 19:34, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 1/14/20 9:47 AM, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote: > > > The code is quite old and the drivers are not MP safe, so its being > > proposed that the code be dropped > > Goose step to the monocuture > > netBSD, we USED to run on everything.. A monoculture in this context would be for everyone to switch to Linux :) Older versions of NetBSD are not going away, but in the interest of there being something other than *just* older versions, people continue to develop. To effectively run on current hardware it needs to be able to use multiple processors, including NUMA and big/little topologies. So it comes down to remaining portable only for a wide set of older hardware, including some combinations for which literally no users exist, or balancing older hardware with new. A good example of the latter is a current thread on how to get jemalloc to work correctly across the various m68k platforms which have different page sizes, without switching to a dynamic page size and the concurrent overhead, plus recent changes to the audio mixer subsystem to ensure it is fast enough to play on those same m68k systems. I like being able to run NetBSD on my work laptop, run xen (likely to switch to nvmm soon) to virtualise a bunch of Linux test boxes for work, and use ZFS on my home server, with syncthing for data redundancy to multiple remote locations. Losing that ability to rely on it day to day in order to keep support for older hardware for which no-one has stood up and offered to write code or even test changes... seems a bad trade. On that final point - on the NetBSD list it appears that several people have spoken up regarding an interest to keep using ARCNET on NetBSD, in some cases they just have hardware and a willingness to test, which is the difference between "we need to update the code, but have no users", and "someone finds this useful" NetBSD is pretty reluctant to drop actual hardware platforms - to my recollection it has effectively dropped three - da30, a custom wire wrap board of which possibly only one ever existed, - pc532, a home-brew NS32532 board which was dropped when gcc dropped processor support - acorn26, the original 26bit address space ARM2 based machines We live in an imperfect world, but NetBSD is pretty much the only *nix still actively trying to keep a modern OS running on older hardware, and they're doing it by focussing on machine independent subsystems and drivers rather than "fork another copy and hack for each case". Thanks David
