MFM PC/XT HDD Controler

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon Dec 29 17:29:52 2003

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

Not easily. As was discussed here a month or so back, ST506 controllers
could 'do their own thing' with the sector headers, etc. It's very
possible that the PC controller and the Beeb one [1] are going to be
incompatible. In which case software won't help

[1] If this was the Acorn hard disk controller, then it was probably an
Acorn SASI/SCSI host adapter and an Adaptec ACB4000 bridge board. if you
can find the latter, you might be able to link it to a PC scsi card (but
I would suggest you make it the only device on the SCSI bus, and have
your PC's normal hard disk on a separate interface).

-tony
Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 17:29:52 GMT