[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues

Sat Aug 19 16:42:35 EDT 2017

I also thought that the service disk writes to eeprom at each option so
maybe you could try resetting once RAM option is selected as it pops up
before disk option.

On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 at 17:24, Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk>
wrote:

> It should tell you what options that are already set, so choose these.
> Teac floppy worked for me with my hxc replacement drive. There are options
> for Canon HD and Sony HD, don't select these.
>
> If you have an sd card hard drive you can easily recover it by imaging an
> sd card with the service disk.
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 at 14:47, William Stillwell via Techtoolslist <
> techtoolslist at flippers.com> wrote:
>
>> So... What do i need to do to prevent BRICKING my Fluke 9110FT when i try
>> to set the ram options up ?
>>
>> William Stillwell
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>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Ian Eure <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:
>>
>> > Ah, that's handy.  I have mine mounted inside, because I don't like
>> > modifying the case.
>> >
>> > I'm very glad folks are finding the disk images and cracked service disk
>> > useful.
>> >
>> > > On Aug 9, 2017, at 5:15 AM, Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I have presented the SD card at the side of my 9100ft so I just
>> imaged a
>> > > spare SD with the service disk for when I need it.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for all you work on the software imaging Ian it's really
>> handy.  I
>> > > transferred my missing pod libraries from the images you have made.
>> > >
>> > >> On 8 August 2017 at 18:47, Ian Eure <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> That's good to know.  I wonder if you can set up the SCSI2SD so you
>> can
>> > >> choose a partition to boot from.  That would let you boot the service
>> > disk
>> > >> any time, or other versions of the OS.
>> > >>
>> > >>> On Aug 8, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Chris Loggans via Techtoolslist <
>> > >> techtoolslist at flippers.com> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I had not thought of copying the disk image to the SD card on a PC.
>> > >> Very creative!
>> > >>> Glad I could help,-Chris
>> > >>>
>> > >>>     From: Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk>
>> > >>> To: Chris Loggans <cloggans at yahoo.com>; Technical Tools Mail List <
>> > >> techtoolslist at flippers.com>
>> > >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:48 PM
>> > >>> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Thank you Chris this worked a treat!My process was to convert the
>> > >> cracked service disk from .imd to .raw using samdisk and the rename
>> the
>> > >> .raw to .img.  I then used win32 disk imager to write the image to
>> an SD
>> > >> and swapped out the main 6.1 SD with this!
>> > >>> Thanks again!
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On 8 August 2017 at 16:45, Chris Loggans via Techtoolslist <
>> > >> techtoolslist at flippers.com> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Steve,
>> > >>>    I did the exact same thing to myself a couple weeks ago.  I was
>> also
>> > >> in the process of installing a SCSI2SD adapter at the time so I
>> > formatted
>> > >> an SD card in another 9100 that I had and copied just the Service
>> disk
>> > to
>> > >> the SD card.  I then installed the SD card in the machine I set
>> > incorrectly
>> > >> and it booted to the Service disk from the SD card which allowed me
>> to
>> > >> change the floppy setting.  If you don't have an SD card, I'm sure
>> you
>> > >> could do the same with a spare SCSI drive.  From my tests with the
>> HxC,
>> > I
>> > >> found that that the Sony and Teac settings seem to work fine.  (I
>> don't
>> > >> remember about the Mitsumi but I think that worked too.)  I could not
>> > get
>> > >> either of the Canon's to work.  I was planning on putting together
>> some
>> > >> information and seeing if I could get some help from the HxC forum
>> since
>> > >> the Canon seems to be the drive in most of the non-FT 9100's.
>> > >>> Thanks,-Chris
>> > >>>
>> > >>>      From: Steve Larkins <steve at ukaudiovisual.co.uk>
>> > >>> To: Technical Tools Mail List <techtoolslist at flippers.com>
>> > >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:17 AM
>> > >>> Subject: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100ft - Floppy Disk Issues
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Hey List
>> > >>> I have just purchased a Hxc Floppy emulator and successfully ran the
>> > >>> cracked service disk from it to upgrade the memory.  There just one
>> > >>> problem..
>> > >>> When you go through the automated process on the disk it asks you
>> for
>> > the
>> > >>> the type of floppy. Now mine has a Canon in it and as it's a Ft I
>> chose
>> > >>> Canon HD. Thiswould appear to be the wrong choice as I can no longer
>> > boot
>> > >>> the service disk nor can I copy files from DR1 to HD1.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Has anyone else come across this and if so can you help me get
>> things
>> > >> back
>> > >>> on track?
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Thanks!
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