MFM PC/XT HDD Controler

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Dec 29 14:54:42 2003

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> But made me think, following on from a discussion of floppy formats
> recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
> BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
> server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
> that could read this if I hook it up to a PC,

Very little in the way of usable tools.
In addition, there are numerous mutually incompatible hard disk formats
for the XT, to the point where you shouldn't even switch to a different
brand of controller without reformatting! (Many of those different
formats are as trivially different as whether sector numbers start at 0 or
at 1, etc.)
On the AT, format was standardized, and drives/controllers are
interchangeable.

> or am I best just connecting
> it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?

YES!!!!!
Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 14:54:42 GMT

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