Scitex Dolev 800v - Bootable Floppy ???

[Nitesh]

Hi All,
The buyer of our old Scitex Dolev 800v is asking for a bootable floopy to boot the machine, because his service engineer is asking for it, and he further insists that floppy should always be inserted in the floppy drive of the machine for booting.

This is absolutely ridiculous because since we brought this machine refurbished from a reseller 4-5 years ago, and from the time of installation there was never a word about booting from floppy drive neither was any floppy inserted in the drive all these years.

My question is, does this machine always require a floppy disk to boot ?
Then how come we were not known about this?
Also, how can the bootable floppy be bypassed and boot by itself from its any internal disk or so?

Any help in this regard is most welcome.
Thanks in advance.

Nitesh

[PACH]

Hi All,
The buyer of our old Scitex Dolev 800v is asking for a bootable floopy to boot the machine, because his service engineer is asking for it, and he further insists that floppy should always be inserted in the floppy drive of the machine for booting.

This is absolutely ridiculous because since we brought this machine refurbished from a reseller 4-5 years ago, and from the time of installation there was never a word about booting from floppy drive neither was any floppy inserted in the drive all these years.

My question is, does this machine always require a floppy disk to boot ?
Then how come we were not known about this?
Also, how can the bootable floppy be bypassed and boot by itself from its any internal disk or so?

Any help in this regard is most welcome.
Thanks in advance.

Nitesh

Nitesh,

For many years the Dolevs came out from manufacturing only with floppy drives, so they needed to be booted up from a diskette, that initialized the boards and loaded some tables.
Later on some reselers or if the customer wanted there was an option to add a hard drive , monitor , keyboard and mouse, so you could operate the Dolev from the CRT.
In your case you must have a hard drive installed.
The very last models were manufactured with flash disks.( fast Dolevs)
You have to get into the BIOS of the CPU to change from booting options.
Did you have a CRT with the Dolev before you sold it as you will need one to do the above.

[Nitesh]

Hi Pach,
yes indeed it had a b/w CRT and a keyboard.
can u help me further

Thanks In advance

Nitesh

[prepressing]

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Scitex Dolev Workflow RIP Software, Dolev Imagesetter RIP Software 800, 200, 400, 250, 450, 4Press
or
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[PACH]

Nitesh,

Connect the B/W monitor and keyboard to the CPU inside the Electronics crate
To do this open the RHSide door of the Dolev, connect the cables and bring the cables out in a way that you will be able to close the door so the interlock is made
Switch the monitor on
Turn the Dolev on and keep pressing F2 ( or DEL I am not 100% sure) on the keyboard to get into the BIOS
In the Standard Coms Setup you will see Date/ Time /ETc
Next select BIOS Features Setup where The Boot Sequence should be SCSI and further down Boot Floppy should be disabled
Exit and Save
If the software is not corupted on the hard drive then the Dolev should boot up.
I hope that this will help.
Good luck

[Nitesh]

Hi Pach,
I'll get back to u as soon as I try this.


Nitesh

[eceteknik]

your machine was running on optional harddrive but now its crashed. thats why the engineer is asking for boot floppy disk. in fact he should have it. if you need i can send you the installer file for dolev firmware. with this disket you can either run your machine or you can install a new clean harddisk. the advantage of harddisk is that it is faster during startup and when navigate through the menus. another issue, floppy diskets are not long term durable. harddisk is better. but you need to know how to install it. just send me an e-mail i send you the installer file.

[Nitesh]

Hi Ece Teknik,
I'll certainly try out pls send me the file and instructions.


Thanks
Nitesh

[eceteknik]

give me your mail address please.

[Nitesh]

Ece Teknik,
Pls post it on this forum, so that anybody else who is in need might be benefitted as well.

Nitesh