Reading old disks on Linux

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Oct 16 18:51:00 2002

>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
>
>Thanks
>It has some good information, some errors, and some good and bad guesses
>(such as saying that it is probably possible to read hard sectored disks
>with PC hardware)


Hi Fred
 Maybe he meant that if the computer he had, has an accessible
DSP processor ( as some modem and sound cards have ). With
this, one could use the controller to deal with track stepping
and use the DSP to do the actual data reads. Of course,
one needs to do some hard wiring to patch things together.

( Well, maybe he didn't mean that after all. )
Dwight
Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 18:51:00 BST