acollins22
Experienced Member
Hi Folks,
I have started trying to get my old NCR Decision Mate V up and running.
I have it to the point where it is asking for a boot disk that I don't have.
I have found an image of a boot disk in CopyQM format. This isn't a format I have come across.
Using the command line utility "read_cqm" I have produced an image file but here is where I get some questions.
Firstly, read_cqm reports that it is reading up to track 79. The NCR DMV uses 40 track double sided drives so I'm assuming that even track number are on one side of the disk and odd numbered tracks are on the other. Does that sound plausible?
Secondly, assuming I can get a 40 track DSDD drive onto my PC, how should I write it? I am running Linux here so do I just use dd and point it to the new floppy drive? If so, how does it know about tracks and sides etc?
Thanks for your help.
All the best,
Andy.
I have started trying to get my old NCR Decision Mate V up and running.
I have it to the point where it is asking for a boot disk that I don't have.
I have found an image of a boot disk in CopyQM format. This isn't a format I have come across.
Using the command line utility "read_cqm" I have produced an image file but here is where I get some questions.
Firstly, read_cqm reports that it is reading up to track 79. The NCR DMV uses 40 track double sided drives so I'm assuming that even track number are on one side of the disk and odd numbered tracks are on the other. Does that sound plausible?
Secondly, assuming I can get a 40 track DSDD drive onto my PC, how should I write it? I am running Linux here so do I just use dd and point it to the new floppy drive? If so, how does it know about tracks and sides etc?
Thanks for your help.
All the best,
Andy.