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Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300

From "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.3b1
Subject Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300
Date 2015-07-18 03:53 +0000
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On 2015-07-15, vlaarom@gmail.com <vlaarom@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 3:06:01 AM UTC+2, DoN. Nichols wrote:
>> On 2015-07-07, vlaarom@gmail.com <vlaarom@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have successfully booted from diagnostic floppy.
>> 
>> 	Congratulations on your progress.

	[ ... ]

>> 	O.K.  The disk works, at least.  Did you find an entry for that
>> disk in the diagnostic floppy?  If not -- perhaps try the alternate
>> diagnostic floppy, which is used with a newer kernel and with systems
>> which have been modified to access a second hard drive.  IIRC, it has a
>> larger list of hard disks -- as well as the possibility of entering the
>> disk parameters manually.

	[ ... ]

> Where can i find the image of alternate diagnostic disk?

	Well ... where did you download the images of the Foundation
set?  The first disk of that is named: "01of12a-Std-Diag" in at least
one copy that I have, and right after that is: "01of12b-Enhanced-Diag".

	So -- what you want to do is look for the "enhanced diagnostic"
disk and substitute it for the stanrad diagnostic disk.

	My first hit doing a search for:

		3B1 7300 Unix-PC enhanced diagnostics

(using DuckDuckGo as my preferred search engine) was

	AT&T 3B1/7300 (UNIX PC) information, and a bit of searching
through that leads me to:

	<http://unixpc.taronga.com/kernel/>

where you find (among other things):

 ======================================================================
kernel/s4diag.cpio.gz (91/10/12)
    Enhanced version of the UNIXpc diagnostic program that permits
formatting hard disks with > 8 heads and/or > 1024 cylinders. 
======================================================================

	You also want to get from that same directory:

 ======================================================================
kernel/s4test.info (91/10/12)
    Documents the various "s4test" expert-mode diagnostic routines
accessible through the UNIXpc diagnostic disk. 
======================================================================

	So -- that is what I was talking about.

	Various other things of possible interest there, too.

	Good Luck,
		DoN.

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Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-06-11 05:38 -0700
  Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-06-12 00:13 +0000
    Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-06-15 11:01 -0700
      Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-06-17 01:43 +0000
        Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-06-17 00:18 -0700
          Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-06-18 03:42 +0000
            Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-06-25 01:44 -0700
              Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-06-26 02:23 +0000
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    Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-06-15 11:01 -0700
  Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-07-07 01:24 -0700
    Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-07-12 01:06 +0000
      Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-07-15 07:46 -0700
        Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-07-18 03:53 +0000
  Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 vlaarom@gmail.com - 2015-08-04 04:36 -0700
    Re: Reconstructing an AT&T 7300 "DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> - 2015-08-09 02:11 +0000
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