Re: SMD disks

2019-09-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/4/19 5:02 PM, P Gebhardt wrote: > Al, > thanks a million for having uploaded the Super Eagle manual. I had been > looking for a long time for it! > > Best regards, > Pierre you're welcome. I may have the original paper, if so i'll scan it at a higher resolution, the schematics are

Re: SMD disks

2019-09-04 Thread P Gebhardt via cctalk
Al,thanks a million for having uploaded the Super Eagle manual. I had been looking for a long time for it! Best regards,Pierre -http://www.digitalheritage.de Am Freitag, 30. August 2019, 18:03:34 GMT-7 hat Al

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/30/19 12:50 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: > Talking about such drives, did anybody ever come across some manuals for the > Super Eagles M2361A? Just uploaded it to bitsavers

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-30 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
gt; > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > With SMD disks even harder to come by than MFM disks, has there > > been any plug-in replacements developed for them? I've seen MFM > > disk emulators, haven't seen SMD ones though, anyone know if they > &g

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-30 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 2:06 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: > I’m actively working on SMD and ESDI emulators. However, given my work > schedule this is a long term project. :-( That's awesome. I have a number of SMD and ESDI controllers for workstations and minicomputers. In

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-30 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
I’m actively working on SMD and ESDI emulators. However, given my work schedule this is a long term project. :-( TTFN - Guy > On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Haddox via cctalk > wrote: > > With SMD disks even harder to come by than MFM disks, has there been

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-30 Thread Jonathan Haddox via cctalk
With SMD disks even harder to come by than MFM disks, has there been any plug-in replacements developed for them? I've seen MFM disk emulators, haven't seen SMD ones though, anyone know if they exist?

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-30 Thread P Gebhardt via cctalk
Hi Alan, >3. The system "ran when parked" about a dozen years ago, but it was left >in an open barn after that. How likely is it that the disks will work >and be readable? One is a Fujitsu M2333; don't recall what they other >one is. > Alan, I have a few of these drives of which two were

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-29 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 9:27 PM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > > On 8/29/19 9:17 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:53 PM Alan Perry via cctalk > > wrote: > >> > >> My Sun 3/260 came with a pair of 8-inch SMD disks in a sep

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-29 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 8/29/19 9:17 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:53 PM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: My Sun 3/260 came with a pair of 8-inch SMD disks in a separate cabinet. 1. Anyone have a pointer to docs that describe cabling and configuring SMD disks? My Google-fu has failed

Re: SMD disks

2019-08-29 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:53 PM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > My Sun 3/260 came with a pair of 8-inch SMD disks in a separate cabinet. > > 1. Anyone have a pointer to docs that describe cabling and configuring > SMD disks? My Google-fu has failed here. > > 2. The syste

SMD disks

2019-08-29 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
My Sun 3/260 came with a pair of 8-inch SMD disks in a separate cabinet. 1. Anyone have a pointer to docs that describe cabling and configuring SMD disks? My Google-fu has failed here. 2. The system came with no cables (external cables between cabinets). Are these standard cables

Re: SunOS 3.5 and SMD disks

2017-02-11 Thread r.stricklin
On Feb 11, 2017, at 3:26 AM, Dennis Grevenstein wrote: > SunOS 3.5? There is no „format“ command apparently. Prior to SunOS 4, the formatter is standalone. You'll need to boot it from tape. ok bear. -- until further notice

SunOS 3.5 and SMD disks

2017-02-11 Thread Dennis Grevenstein
Hi, I recently acquired an old Sun3 with a Fujitsu Eagle disk. This disk has SunOS 3.5 on it. Parts of the installation were missing, though. I wanted to build a new kernel with SCSI support and extracted the sys stuff from a 3.5EXPORT release tape. My machine however runs plain 3.5. I can build