[Techtoolslist] FLUKE 9100A SERIES QUESTION

[Martin White]

I don't really want this to drag on, but briefly.

They're not really that hard to get hold of. When I wanted one I asked on here, within no time (maybe 24h, I forget!) I had a response, a few more days payment was exchanged and within the week it had flown across the pond and was on my doorstep. Really wasn't difficult.

Some time later another came up for sale on German eBay that I got for very, very little money £30? that one came with all the parallel and vector pods i could ever need. Sadly the 9100 unit itself turned up smashed to pieces due to lack of packing. Including a destroyed display and a motherboard that blows the house fuse!! Totally beyond repair. Good for some spares though.

As far as the image goes, yeah, it's technically possible, but only in the same way as it's technically possible to take an image of an NTSC drive and edit it. Actually, that's a bad comparison as that IS possible with the Fuse NTFS driver and a loopback device mount.

I looked into this when I first imaged my drive since I'd actually like to be able to do it. I believe there is an OS 9 (not Apple OS 9) file system driver available commercially for Windows. But it costs and I was rather skint after doing the conversion in the first place. I also suspect it was for floppies only and my PC doesn't have  a native floppy. I may have another look. In theory all you need is a file system driver installed on a Linux box, mount the image and off you go.

For now though, nope, can't modify the image even if I wanted to. Maybe every 6 months I take a backup image if I remember and that's as far as it goes.

Martin.

On 30 Nov 2010, at 17:06, Danny Pearson wrote:


> There's no love shared for the 9100 cos they're so damn hard to find.  I'd

> readily share anything I did on one if I ever get one, but then I don't have

> anything to lose from sharing whereas a lot of people who already have them

> do (at a guess).

> 

> Can you create an image an cut out the stuff you don't want to share?   Be

> good to have a readily available vanilla image I'm sure.

> 

> Dan

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> I have an image for 6.1

> 

> 1. How would I know if it's serialised?

> 2. My machine is an FT does it matter?

> 3. Related to point 2, it might matter that the image would be for a 60mb

> drive as that's what my scsi drive was before I went down the compact flash

> road.

> 

> I'd be happy enough for the image to be used on an ad-hoc basis. Not so sure

> I'd be happy for it to be hosted for the whole world to grab.

> 

> Not sure how that last paragraph will sit with people but I hope you'd

> understand. I have stuff on here I've put hard work into and there seems to

> be barely any sharing the love when it comes to 9100's :)

> 

> Maybe that could change?

> 

> Martin.

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