Hello!
Some time ago i picked my parents old Amstrad 1512 PC to evacuate my mothers writings from the HD.
I managed to put  up a connection with tera term and a null modem cable. Should there be a  protocoll (kermit or xmodem for example) in DOS 3.0? Cant receive if nobody sends...

Now i´ve been doodling around with Amstrad´s floppy drive in order to connect it to my Duron with winXp, so that i could copy Kermit on a floppy and then mount the whole gibberish back to Amstrad.

But, i just cant get that dang floppy drive to work with Duron.  Windows recognies it, but it says that there is no disk in that drive. Or in CMD, that device is not ready or it cannot be opened directly for use. Depending am i trying to format a: or just use the VOL command.

I use a floppy drive cable with two connectors for the big floppy, first one of them behind the "twist", and one connector nearest to motherboard for the small floppy. A three drive cable it is. Could the cable be the troublemaker? Plus those jumpers on the amstrads floppy drive... I just cant figure this thing out.
Does somebody know how to connect a oldschool floppy drive to a modern pc?  A museum piece. The Amstrad CAME with 360K floppies. If you haven't changed the jumpers, you might be able to access it by setting it in bios. It is likely formatted with DOS 3x.My new pc´s bios supports only 1.2meg floppies. I´ve got an older 133mhz MikroMikko PC which´s bios supports 360K floppies.
I bolted the drive to MikroMikko, and some progress is made.
When i view the content of any of those floppies i can SEE the content. But immediately when i try to format them or copy some DOC files from there, windows announces that the floppy is not formatted...
*censored*? I can see the floppys content but it is not formatted.
And, when i restart to MS dos mode, and give the FORMAT a:
i get this.  "invalid media or track 0 bad"  Are those floppies just wasted or what.  Now i got it working!   There was one floppy that could be formatted. One of the drives jumpers had to be moved.
So i did, (after trial and error ) and then copied mskermit to the working floppy. Finally jumper back where it was, and the the drive with the floppy back to Amstrad.
I connected null modem cable, and ran kermit on both computers, receive mode in the new pc, and send file from amstrad. It works!  btw the setting the serial port for communications with MODE  command in dos is not enough. Serial port has to be defined with kermit (baud rate, PARITY etc.) SET COM1 9600 for example.