29 Dec
2003
29 Dec
'03
5:29 p.m.
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