Rich Alderson wrote:
I do feel the need, on the other hand, to point out
that "Merlin" is the
name of a TOPS-20 disk copy utility (perhaps pan PDP-10, but I've not
seen
it on other OSes) with the ability to do a
sector-level copy of a blown
filesystem in order to recover as much data as possible before
re-formatting.
At least we're in the same general universe of
discourse! ;-)
Merlin was also the name of the IBM 3330 DASD subsystem, which was the
first to use a voice coil positioner with a servo for track following.
The drive of the DEC RP04 was a Sperry clone of the 3330 model 1, and
the drive of the RP05/RP06 was a Memorex clone of the 3330 model 11. In
a sense, one could use the Merlin program to recover data from a Merlin
drive.
Eric