Thoughts on a datascope

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Aug 21 15:05:35 2000

At 03:16 PM 8/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Remove the HD and attached it as the second drive in an
>old bootable PC that already has one MFM drive. You'll
>need to get the drive parameters for the drive entered
>into the CMOS; I think I used to use SpeedStor (?) for
>that. Other utilities exist.

I imagine the older Linuxes support MFM controllers.
Perhaps even the current versions do, too. You could simply
'dd' the drive image to another device.

My favorite backup trick recently was getting drive images
from an Amiga 2500 to a PC for use under an emulator.
I mounted the PC's drive under NFS, then used a freeware
program to copy the drive image to the remote file.

- John
Received on Mon Aug 21 2000 - 15:05:35 BST