How to copy 2.88M diskette? 5

[DavidSigma]

I need to make some copies of 2.88M old diskettes for opt21. The source diskette is OK and I have new diskettes (2.88M) to copy to. How can it be done (not in the pbx).
Thanks.
David

 

[GHTROUT]

If you can find a older Sun Solaris box somewhere. I believe those can all read the 2.88 diskettes.


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[Avaya911PLM]

And if anyone needs some of these, I still think I have boxes of them laying around.

If anyone needs some, and is going to Global Connect, let me know and I'll bring down a bunch.



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[GHTROUT]

Yes, I would like one Sun SPARCstation please.

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[Avaya911PLM]

NO GENE THE DISKS!

;-) You're too funny!

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[DavidSigma]

Thanks for the SUN solution. Is there a way to do it with a pc (dos/windows)
Thanks
David.

 

[GHTROUT]

Certainly, yes - if you can find a drive that supports that diskette. It's all about the hardware. If you poke around Ebay or wherever, there are still some drives you can buy - so the sellers "claim"

Physically, the diskette fits in any drive - but internally - not the right stuff.

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[GHTROUT]

You know, if you puled a diskette drive from an old PBX and put it in a PC, it might work - maybe someone has done that. It might be cheaper to buy an old CMDU and do that

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[FireFighter78]

The Opt 21 disks are written in some obscure or Nortel proprietary format; we tried unsuccessfully to copy them.

We were able to connect an Opt 21 drive to a PC and successfully formatted blank media in Windows and Linux. Two people said, "Oh that's easy, I'll just make an image and then write out." And twice it was a no go.

 

[DavidSigma]

FireFighter78, you are right. You say twice no go, I say 10 times no go. From some technical people I heard that it will work only with Windows98 or 95 but no final procedure tested to work, this is why I asked the forum.
The Nortel format is under VXworks nothing to do with PC unless there is a way to copy bit bit without checking anything with pc tools as the format is not the same.
Thanks.

 

[GHTROUT]

I use WinImage

http://winimage.com/winimage.htm

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[geirendre]

unless there is a way to copy bit bit without checking anything"
In Linux you can use the DD command to copy bit-by-bit
a file, drive etc to some other file or media.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=diskimage.bin

would copy a diskette into a file named diskimage.bin.
Then you'd replase the floppy with a blank and run

dd if=diskimage.bin of=/dev/fd0

to write it back to the blank floppydisk.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/How_To_Do_Eveything_With_DD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

HTH

 

[DavidSigma]

Thanks Geirendre. How do you connect the 2.88 floppy drive in order to read and write to and from it.
Thanks
David

 

[GHTROUT]

That's just hardware isn't it? I mean, you plug it in to the drive cable.

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[Avaya911PLM]

You just need to match the interface type, probably SCSI


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[FireFighter78]

It is a regular floppy connection, you do need to set it the BIOS also.