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hawkman
Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 16
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:34 am Post subject: Bringing NextStation Color back to life |
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Hi, I have had a NextStation Color 25MHz for many years and the hard drive finally died. I purchased a RaizinMonster and a 4 GB compact flash card. I was getting ready to install NextStep but now I find that my floppy drive is dead and I can't find a CD-rom drive of the correct vintage.
Before I go on an eBay shopping spree, is there any way that I can put an image directly on the compact flash card?
Many thanks. |
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barcher174
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you should be able to DD the image directly to the card on a linux or OS X PC. There is also a version of DD for windows you can download. |
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Rob Blessin Black Hole Site Admin

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 710 Location: Ft. Collins, Colorado
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Bringing NextStation Color back to life |
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hawkman wrote: | Hi, I have had a NextStation Color 25MHz for many years and the hard drive finally died. I purchased a RaizinMonster and a 4 GB compact flash card. I was getting ready to install NextStep but now I find that my floppy drive is dead and I can't find a CD-rom drive of the correct vintage.
Before I go on an eBay shopping spree, is there any way that I can put an image directly on the compact flash card?
Many thanks. | hello : I have used NeXT floppy drives working for $10 or new old stock floppy drives for $19.95 also if you don't have an external cd rom you can use a power splitter and multi connector 50 SCSI cable to connect to a SCSI cd rom , I have some working ones tested compatible for $50 and would throw in a power splitter and internal cable to get you up and running as a plan B for you. _________________ Rob Blessin President computerpowwow ebay sales@blackholeinc.com http://www.blackholeinc.com
303-741-9998 Serving the NeXT Community since 2/9/93 |
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hawkman
Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 16
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info. I have a Mac so dd is available to me. Where can I download the image file from? |
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bobo68

Joined: 03 Jun 2015 Posts: 213 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Google: "nextstep 3.3 image" or something similar.
BTW, I would analyze why the floppy failed. Maybe the capacitors on the mainboard are leaking which might soon ruin the whole machine. |
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hawkman
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hawkman
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Update on progress.
I downloaded that file, extracted it and put it on the CF card using these commands on my Mac:
sh-3.2# diskutil unmountdisk /dev/disk7
sh-3.2# dd if=/dev/disk7 of=NS33_2GB.dd bs=64k
61306+1 records in
61306+1 records out
4017807360 bytes transferred in 612.880765 secs (6555610 bytes/sec)
I then put the card in the reader, in the NeXTStation and booted to ROM monitor and set the boot to be "sd".
However when I boot from the ROM monitor, the light on the CF-SCSI adaptor flashes a little then I get:
booting SCSI target 1, lun 0
Bad version 0x33c08ed0
Bad version 0x0
Bad version 0x0
Bad version 0x0
Bad label
NeXT>
Any ideas? |
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barcher174
Joined: 07 Dec 2012 Posts: 624
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I suspect something is wrong with writing the image to the CF. It usually takes much longer than 10minutes. |
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barcher174
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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I think what you want is:
dd if=NS33_2GB.dd of=/dev/rdisk7 bs=512k
looks like you wrote a blank 4GB output to the NS33_2GB.dd file the way you have it now, so make sure you use a new copy of the disk image. |
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hawkman
Joined: 25 Apr 2016 Posts: 16
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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That's pretty funny... yup, I did exactly what you said - I got my input and output files mixed up. Thanks.
Re-dd'ing now... |
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hawkman
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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HOLY COW - that worked!
sh-3.2# diskutil unmountdisk /dev/disk6
Unmount of all volumes on disk6 was successful
sh-3.2# dd if=NS33_2GB.dd of=/dev/rdisk6 bs=512k
3839+1 records in
3839+1 records out
2012774400 bytes transferred in 78.120462 secs (25765009 bytes/sec)
And it was fast!
Now I just need to figure out how to get the Y2K patches installed and a DHCP client working without floppies... but I have a NeXT GUI for the first time in years on my machine!
Thanks everyone. |
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