MFM PC/XT HDD Controler

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Dec 29 18:40:53 2003

On Dec 29, 12:54, Fred Cisin wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> > or am I best just connecting
> > it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
>
> YES!!!!!

I agree with Fred, although the Beeb uses an Adaptec ACB4000 and in
theory you might be able to hook the drive+ACB4000 up to a PC with a
SCSI bus. However, you still have the problem of understanding the
data. Stick to kermit.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 18:40:53 GMT

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