11 Feb
2021
11 Feb
'21
9:36 a.m.
On 2/11/21 9:25 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
What is the best way of dumping the contents of an
ESDI disk?
I have an original IBM Enhanced ESDI ISA controller board. Could that be
used under Linux? Or NetBSD/FreeNSD? I googled but didn't find much.
Is there any other way of dumping the disk contents?
In theory it should be just a matter of clocking the raw data and finding
the marks and extracting the data. Has anyone done something similar?
I'm a little confused on this. An ESDI drive, in my experience, behaves
exactly like an ATA one, right down to the command set. ESDI drives
can be soft-or-hard sectored.
What am I missing?
--Chuck