Recent content by new_castle_j

Yes, I have firmware for 8" floppy + OMTI HDD boot, and 8" floppy + Monitor Dynamics HDD boot, I don't recognize what CPZ-186_40T could refer to... perhaps 40-Track floppy?

The onboard floppy chip on the CPZ-186 still requires a personality board to work, they offered an interface to either 5.25" or 8" floppy disk, (picture of 8" personality board is attached) There was also a hard disk personality board that connected to the OMTI 5xxx series SASI to MFM bridge...

Yes I have the TurboDOS software for the ICM CPZ-186. I actually do support for a small business that is still running their inventory and accounting software on an S-100 with a CPZ-186 master and 12 CPS-BMX slave processors. ICM did a great job of implementing their master/slave communication...

I have a dim memory of the vanilla MEX distribution walking you through a setup wizard, and one question you were prompted with was if you are using TurboDOS, and if so, it would configure itself to use the COM channel driver instead of going direct to hardware. There should be a program...

I am not aware of any way to 'deconstruct' a .REL in the way you are describing. In the case of MCD740.REL, I don't think you will be saving much if you did manage to extract SPB186 out of it. SPB186 is the bootstrap code for the 186 slave, and it's minimal. The real meat of that .REL is the...

There is a jumper on the 1100 Hard disk controller that allows it to be used with hard drives with more than 8 heads. Jumper JA should be shunted between pins 2 and 3 if you are going to use more than 8 heads. TurboDOS will support a single hard disk partition up to 1 GB, and I can't...

Brilliant! it's all working! Try doing a FMTF and select single sided disk, it appears to work and verify. Perhaps there is something with our Gotek config that doesn't play well with double sided emulated media? I located a disk in my collection that has a hand written label that says: "Mex...

Attached is the TPA.COM file for checking how much memory is free.

Why does FMTF format the floppy without any complaints, but then fail to verify it? (But the standalone 'verify' command has no issues verifying it. -- I noticed that too, it has something to do with the Gotek, when I format a real floppy disk, the whole process works without a glitch. Perhaps...

Wonderful! Please send me your latest GEN/PAR files. I had forgotten that the 401 and 930 floppy controllers were supported by the same driver! One other thing to know about IPLALL is that it has a pretty long delay built into it before it probes the hard drive for booting. You will also have...

Beautiful! I never found what "On time" and "Off time" meant, it's not documented in any of the materials I have. I can only assume that it has something to do with head settling time.

In your PAR file of the 1.3 and 1.4 versions, make sure you have the following: AUTUSR = 80 ;Automatic logon to user 0, privileged You can also send me your GEN/PAR file for me to examine for other suggestions... One thing about the IMS floppy driver, they split it up into a bunch of...

Very impressive! The velocity of your progress is remarkable. For the 1.41 TurboDOS, what did you use for the floppy disk drivers? The order of the REL files matters only when dealing with Disk drivers and Circuit drivers, if you have more that 1 disk driver for example a floppy and a hard...

If you view the .IMD disk images in a text editor, you will see a comment in them where I kept the serial numbers.

Here's another tool you're going to need, RS08.COM, each of the .REL files are serialized and can only be GENned with the matching GEN.COM that came on the disk when purchased. I expect that we will be copying the .REL drivers for the 401 floppy in the 1.2 or 1.3 version onto the 1.4 disk and...