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

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Fri Jun 21 20:10:23 2002

I know if they are RX-50's for the rainbow, RainDOS lets you read and write
them on a IBM compatible with a 1.2MB 5 1/4" drive


At 11:10 AM 6/21/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >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 - 20:10:23 BST