First post, by nio
Hi, i've tried to revive my Toshiba T2110 486 75MHz with 4MB memory.
First, I've setup an virtual machine in VirtualBox wih virtual HDD of size 1.95GB.
I've installed DOS 6.22 using virtual floppies and installer. It had formatted the drive.
Next i've installed aoatapi.sys driver:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=845
I've created an ISO image using Free ISO Create Wizard. It had filesystem type of ISO9660 Level 1.
It had 568MB in size. It contained various games to test out new memory 4MB module extension I didn't install yet.
Next I've turned off the virtual machine with DOS and i've connected CF card reader with
16GB Sandisk Ultra 50MB/s compact flash card to my PC. Next I booted my Ubuntu 15.10.
There was an USB filter that catches the CF card reader for ubuntu virtual machine.
I have the same DOS virtual HDD from DOS VM connected to ubuntu VM, so i could easily dd
the data from DOS virtual HDD to CF card byte by byte. I did copy around 2GB of data to 16GB
card so the rest of the space was left as it was.
After turning ubuntu machine off, windows detected CF card again and probably corrupted the
FAT16 filesystem on CF card because it had created some System volume information directory
and files with long names there.
I've successfully booted the T2110 with DOS 6.22. Half of the files were corrupted and other half not.
Dyna blaster did run despite the low amount of memory and levels 1,2 were running ok.
Other games and software were outputing an error:
sector not found
What could have possibly gone wrong? How do you transfer files to DOS properly? How do you prevent modern OS interfering with your CF card? My floppy drive is dead and I don't have any other equipment for my toshiba laptop.