[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100 stuff wanted

[martin at guddler.co.uk]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I'll be checking out the scsi adapter route when the 9100 get's here I  
think. that looks quite interesting.

 From what I can see of the keyboard interface project, it was all  
going quite well but was put on hold on 24th June 2003 because of  
deadlines on some other projects. David Shoemaker was running with it  
at that time. Then a baby appears to have come along early in 2004 :o)

It looks like the adapters were essentially completed with a couple of  
limitations that I'm sure people could live with (no keyboard repeat,  
no lights) but never actually produced apart from a couple of test  
versions that went to Kev (mowerman I presume) and James?

Anyway, from my reading up, as far as I can tell there's going to be  
absolutely nothing I can do with this unit in terms of programming and  
automating tasks apart from immediate mode operations without the  
keyboard and video card as even terminal emulation to send files to  
and from it requires initialising from within edit mode, then some  
file operations and conversions afterwards? Someone correct me if this  
is wrong?

Very frustrating but I guess I'll just have to be patient and stick  
with it. I'm assuming I may have to even buy another entire base unit  
with a video card in it by the time I'm done but I've already been  
looking for one for about a year now so I don't hold out much hope for  
that happening too soon either!

This thing looks like an entire new hobby all of it's own - looking  
forward to it :o)

Martin.

On 31 Dec 2007, at 18:12, Corey Stup wrote:


>

>> SCSI drive emulation would be a treat! Here is one link for a  

>> product to replace SCSI drives:

>> http://www.adtron.com/products/Sdds.html

> I have worked with a couple SCSI->flash projects for the 9100.  Some  

> are successful, others not so much.

>

> The SCSI interfaced flash HD's seem to work fine (under approx  

> 700MB, above and you get the overflow issue in the editor).  I have  

> a couple running in 9100's now and they work perfectly, and no  

> moving parts.

>

> I've not been as successful with using the SCSI PCMCIA adaptors that  

> allow for AT flash cards as a SCSI device.   I believe its do to the  

> sector sizes being different, but I've not had a chance to followup  

> on it.   I believe that another project that I have going (updating  

> our kernel to OS-9 2.3) might help that, as its FS drivers allow for  

> a larger range of sector sizes.   I have a SCSI bus analyzer that  

> has helped debug the SCSI driver but I lost interest in that  

> project, it could be dug back out again if there were others  

> interested.

>

>> Then we need someone to design a video card to replace the original  

>> so the machines can be useful...and what DID happen to the keyboard  

>> hack anyways? David? Corey?

> I never worked on the keyboard hack, but I'd be happy to pick it  

> back up.

>

> I have a ton of 9100 parts that eventually I need to do something  

> with.     Consoles, cards, parts, -003 modules, etc.

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