What's the best way to slurp up DEC RX50s?

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Fri Jun 21 05:10:01 2002

>Primary goal is backup - TELEDISK should do that. Secondary goal is
>to produce image files suitable for use with simh and E-11.

Backup implies an ability to restore, and, at least
for me, TELEDISK has problems doing that. On my system
(which at the time was a K6 233MHz machine) 3.5"
disks could be restored without issue but 5.25"
disks could not be reliably restored (this seemed
to apply to both 360KB and 1.2MB disks). I assume
that restoring RX50s will be no easier.

It might just have been my system, it might just
have been my copy of TELEDISK (there seem to be
multiple copies floating around) but it did not
fill me with confidence.

Is the TELEDISK format freely available? If not,
restoring your disks may be difficult once the
last PC has expired!

BACKUP/PHYSICAL has the advantage that you can at
least work out where each block ends up (since the
BACKUP source listings are available).

(If anyone has suggestions for "imaging" 360KB
floppies, 1.2MB floppies and RX50s using PC hardware
running Windows or Linux or NetBSD, I'm all ears.
Preference given to those with practical experience
of restoring the data afterwards ... I'm not keen
to run through several hundred floppies just on
the off-chance it will be worthwhile.)

Antonio
Received on Fri Jun 21 2002 - 05:10:01 BST