Here's the deal:
I have a circa 1982 IBM PC that has a Seagate ST-251 in it attached to a Data Technology Corp. DTC-5150CI controller with a BIOS on it. Everything works fine and the PC will boot up (it's running PC-DOS 3.3) and I can navigate around and look at all the files, etc.
The problem is that I want to pull the files off of this drive, and the 360K floppy doesn't appeal to me a method of transfer (the hard drive is almost full.)
There are three ways I can imagine doing this:
1. Get an 8-bit ethernet card working under DOS 3.3 and somehow connect it to my home network,
2. Install a second HD in the PC that's running off a more modern controller (IDE?),
3. Install the ST-251 into a more modern PC.
I've been trying to get option 3 to work for a week now, but I'm not having any luck. Any tips? I'm currently trying to get the DTC controller to work in an old EISA 486 with a 1992 AMI BIOS, but I keep getting a "HDD Controller failure" message. I've tried it both with the controllers BIOS enabled and disabled. If the BIOS is enabled, it puts up a message saying "1 hard disk" right before the other error - this is the same message I see on the PC right before it starts booting.
So I know the controller itself is "working", but it's not being recognized by the BIOS. I'm not sure what's going on.
Any tips? Any other ideas about how to get the data off of this drive? Should I try another MFM controller?
Daniel
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Daniel A. Segel
WorldCom
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Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 14:37:31 BST