Kevin Adams
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I have posted this to comp.sys.tandy. If you read it there, I appologise for the duplication...
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I am using a Tandy 6000 computer running TRS-Xenix version 03.02.00.
I recently bought a set of 7 eight inch single sided double density floppy disks on eBay with TRS-Xenix games on them.
The first thing I did when I received them was to make images of all the disks with a Catweasel card using Tim Mann's CW2DMK software. All disks read perfectly.
I created copies of the disks with the Catweasel and have been trying to get the programs installed on the model 6000.
When I try to mount the disks, I get the message "bad super block". The help file for the command "fsck" suggests that it may need to be run against floppy disks from earlier versions of TRS-Xenix in order to read them in version 3.x, so I tried running fsck against the copies. fsck gives the error "unknown file system version". All 7 disks produce the same error. I tried the original disks in case the copy was flawed and got the same result.
When I run a binary/text viewer against the DMK image files I can see unix paths and filenames, and much of the text of the games that I am looking for including the game I want most for TRS-Xenix, Nethack.
I find it hard to believe that all 7 of these disks really have a bad super block. I feel that it must be some assumption I've made that's wrong or that I'm reading them incorrectly.
I can send you the DMK files if you have the ability to help.
I welcome any ideas you can offer.
Kevin
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I am using a Tandy 6000 computer running TRS-Xenix version 03.02.00.
I recently bought a set of 7 eight inch single sided double density floppy disks on eBay with TRS-Xenix games on them.
The first thing I did when I received them was to make images of all the disks with a Catweasel card using Tim Mann's CW2DMK software. All disks read perfectly.
I created copies of the disks with the Catweasel and have been trying to get the programs installed on the model 6000.
When I try to mount the disks, I get the message "bad super block". The help file for the command "fsck" suggests that it may need to be run against floppy disks from earlier versions of TRS-Xenix in order to read them in version 3.x, so I tried running fsck against the copies. fsck gives the error "unknown file system version". All 7 disks produce the same error. I tried the original disks in case the copy was flawed and got the same result.
When I run a binary/text viewer against the DMK image files I can see unix paths and filenames, and much of the text of the games that I am looking for including the game I want most for TRS-Xenix, Nethack.
I find it hard to believe that all 7 of these disks really have a bad super block. I feel that it must be some assumption I've made that's wrong or that I'm reading them incorrectly.
I can send you the DMK files if you have the ability to help.
I welcome any ideas you can offer.
Kevin