Re: Sider (Xebec/Datamac SASI) drive and UCSD Pascal 1.1 (Apple Pascal)

["brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

not that i know what i'm talking about here..but perhaps...your methods and
or the files recovered can be saved and distributed (w/explanation) i'm sure
there were a lot of setups using floppies in this manner...so prob will prob
crop up again..i know i have around 10 or so siders i keep meaning to
archive.i know a few of them have pascal partitions i have no idea what is
on them either....so let us know if/how you do this and pop the said files
someplace so those of us can grab them *just in case*....



i will now stumble back to my non-programmer lifestyle...after trying to
follow this thread ..my head hurts....that and my guilt on my slow progress
on archiving stuff



brad



"msg" <msg@cybertheque.org> wrote in message
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> Progress made; I can now access the Sider volumes from a floppy-booted
> system.  I found that 'disk4' contained the drivers as purged files
> and after recovering those and copying 'SYSTEM.ATTACH',
> 'ATTACH.DRIVERS',
> and 'ATTACH.DATA' to the boot floppy (there are versions for 1.1, 1.2
> and
> 1.3), the hard disk volumes are on-line.
>
> >
> > Curiously, there also is no 'SYSTEM.ATTACH' as a directory entry on
> > any of the Siderware disks from Wayne's site, and the contents of
> > disk4 is a bit bizarre: it contains a single 2 block program called
> > 'QUIT.CODE'...
>
> Still, these were absent (purhaps purged?) from our working original
> system.
>
> > Unless there is some 'hidden file' mechanism at work on our original
> > disk, there must have been some installation program which statically
> > linked Xebec drivers into the P-system somehow.
>
> As a test I will purge these files from the working boot floppy and
> see what happens.
>
> Michael