V9k Hard Drive setup

Tested on a Victor 9000 with:

• 896K RAM (128K mainboard + SRAM Upgrade card)
• (Prob only need 256K)
• DMA card and Xebec S1410 with ROM 104521f
• Decromancer rev.D smt MFM emulator
• ROM BIOS 3.7
• Victor DOS 3.1 (IO 2.94)
• FACTORYF.EXE (76672 bytes)
• HDSETUP.EXE v2.34 (72897 bytes)
• boot floppy: v9k-dos31-ss-hdutil.zip

Steps:

1. On the MFM Emulator:

•    mfm_emu --drive 1 --file disk_695_5 --initialize --cylinders 695 --heads 5        
  

• (start manually, or setup auto mount)

2. On the Victor, boot MS-DOS 3.1

• It usually pauses for a long time (minutes) with a blank screen before continuing to boot

3. Run FACTORYF.EXE

• You can hit Shift-F4 to configure specs manually, or choose TM703
• 0 bad blocks

4. Once FACTORYF.EXE is done, reset the Victor
5. Run HDSETUP.EXE

• INIT
• CONFIG - Add 10000 volume 1, the rest to volume 2
• ASSIGN - boot to volume 1, a to volume 1, b to right floppy, c to volume 2
  • I think you can adjust the drive letters as desired, but this is the normal setup

6. Once DONE it will reboot
7. After reboot, SYS B:
   • With this version of SYS.EXE, you specify the source of the system file to copy from on the command line
   • choose a as destination
   • This SYS.EXE (ms2.17) seems buggy - sometimes crashes or reboots after it’s done
8. Remove the floppy, Reset the Victor - should boot from the hard drive now!