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

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jun 21 22:40:45 2002

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Geoff Reed wrote:

> I know if they are "MSDOS" RX-50's for the rainbow, RainDOS lets you
                      ^^^^^ but not CP/M or other.
> 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 - 22:40:45 BST