[SBE] Harris HT40 Sentry interface question

[William Whitt]

The thing about 5 ¼” disks is the ability to even read them anymore. If you
get your hands on a 5 ¼” floppy drive – the IDE cable won’t match anything
on the mother board. The “Socket 7” mother boards – 486, 486DX and SX
through to your PII will have the proper IDE sockets to run the drive to
pull the data. If you’re trying to use the 5 ¼” drive on a newer MB, with a
standard cable for the IDE Channel, it won't work. The first thing is you
will have to reverse the cable on one end from what it is plugged into on
the MB. In other words Pin one on the MB will be the top left pin of the IDE
Channel but lower last pin on the Floppy itself or, visa vera. Once you get
the Cable correct (and correct cable as they are not all the same). Then
comes in phase 2 of your host of problems. Most XP Service packs 
 from XP
service 2 forward to Windows 7 
. Don’t even have drivers to support the
drive, or it will not recognize it. The Solution to this is good old Linux
Live CD. Xbuntu for older hardware – I think Ubuntu will have what you need
as well. Pull the data off the 5 ¼” drive to your hard drive using Linux –
remove the live CD – boot back into windows platform, and run the program.
You can use the Live CD to configure your IDE correctly and test the drive.

 

I thought I would throw this out there in case no one had a usable copy in a
modern format for ya.

 

BTW – Ebay is pretty much your only source for these drives anymore 
 if you
don’t already have one.

 

Bill

 

 

 

 

From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Curt
Yengst
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:03 PM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: [SBE] Harris HT40 Sentry interface question

 

We've got a Harris HT40 Platinum VHF transmitter.  Among the manuals is one
for the Sentry PC interface program.  In the back of the manual is the
program on a 5 1/4"(!) floppy disk.  (Kind of gives you an idea of how old
the thing is.)

Anyway, the boss wants to possibly use the program to monitor the
transmitter, but I have no means so far of reading this disk.  Does anyone
have this program on another format, or can it be emailed?

Thanks.

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