Uncreative Labs

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

Is the XT diagnostics disk image in the download section corrupt?
Winimage won't make any disk from it (corrupt image)

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

Thanks. I'll dig up my copy when I get home and try to reimage it.

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

I found it too, the PCBBS IBM FTP server went down recently, but there is a mirror here:
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/ftp/mirrors/ps2supersite.homedns.org/pccbbs/refdisks/xtdgs225.dsk

Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 61 Location: sunny AZ

try this one, done just now with winimage version 5

http://www.selectric.org/ibmpc/xtdiags.IMZ

Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Netherlands

worked! thanks!

Now I found out my XT has a hercules card+ a cga card... they never bothered to take the hercules out...

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:32 pm

The XT diagnostics disk image on this site is probably not corrupt at all. Although it has a ".dsk" extension, it is not a Winimage file. You have to remember that the 5160 was introduced in March of 1983, long before the first version of Winimage. Unfortunately, it uses the same extension (.dsk) as Winimage does, but Winimage can't open it as it was never a Winimage file in the first place.

Winimage just chokes on it.

Believe it or not, the XT diagnostics disk requires use of a second program, called either "loaddskf.exe" or "loaddisk.exe", (can't remember what it's called exactly) to extract the special "image" and write it to a 360K floppy disk.

Since Jim has kindly provided the Winimage version, it's probably just easier to use that one, rather than search for the special IBM program to extract the IBM image file.

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I would like to see dxp or something they does not require some extra program to unzip. that way only the file is needed.
I have exploring the imb pc both cga and mono versions.

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:55 am

Bump. Bumpitty bump bump bump

The .dsk image file can be read with disk copy fast if anyone is having problems with it still.