josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com (josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com) wrote:
: Yeah, buying a 5.25 drive would be the easy way out. Not sure what you
: mean about the damaged SCSI drive: most hard drives in my past were
: sealed enough that you could only get at the SCSI cable (relatively
: simple to repair/replace) and soldered-on devices.
Somewhere, someone came up with a patched version of DOS 3.3 that includes
support for 800k 3.5" disks. AMDOS or something like that. What I don't
remember was whether the DOS image included support for INITing 3.5"
disks, thus creating a bootable 3.5" disk.
The advantage is that like standard DOS 3.3, DOS is an image, so once it
is loaded into the machine it should be possible to impress it onto a disk
to create a bootable disk. Once you have that, you can bring in a comm
program via Executioner or something like that which would then allow you
to download a disk image of a ProDOS system disk. Which, of course, is
only a 143k image which would fit easily on the bootable 400k DOS 3.3
volume. Turn that into a bootable disk, and you're in business!
Anybody remember whether AMDOS includes an INIT utility as part of the
image?
--Dave Althoff, ][.