Jose,

I used to have a DOS based shareware program similar to LapLink which would
be perfect for your needs.  This program fit on a single 720K disk (yep it's
that old) and had the unique ability to install itself on the "B" machine
*from* the "A" machine side via the parrallel cable.

The name of it is/was PC HOOK or maybe just Hooker.  You might be able to
find it at one of the older archive sites like tucows.

If I can find the disk, I'll give you a shout...

Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jose E. Dominguez
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 11:55 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Can't read drive
>
>
> Good evening:
>
> I hope someone out there can help me. I have a friend that has an old
> Digital 386 running mail sorting software on a mail sorting system. His
> hard drive is beginning to show signs of wear and tear and he would like
> back up the contents and transfer them to a new PC.
>
> One of the problems is that the floppy drive is not working. I've taken
> the drive out of the Digital and installed it in another PC, used Auto
> Detect to setup the drive but I can't read it. This could very well be
> because the parameters used on the drive are not the ones that the drive
> was originally setup with. The thing is we can't get into the setup of
> the Digital PC to see the actual parameters, or check to see if the
> floppy is even setup. He was told that the problem is that the Digital
> PCs used a different format than the rest, he was also told that if he
> can find a Tandy 386 he will be able to see the drive contents because
> they use the same format. Is this true? How can we get into the setup of
> the Digital?
>
> Tomorrow I'll go take another look at the Digital and get the model
> number and any pertinent information that might be needed to solve this
> problem. Meanwhile if anyone has any ideas/suggestions to backup this
> drive I'll appreciate it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jose
>