29 Nov
2011
29 Nov
'11
2:23 p.m.
What's the best way to do this?
I believe I have vintage PCs with ISA slots and ST-506
hard drive
controllers, so that may be an option.
However, the drives I want to archive are not from a
PC system, but have
the ST-506 electrical interface.
MFM drives are not portable across controller models. And at least
sometimes, they're not even portable across examples of a given model of
controller. Remember that the _analog_ waveform is passed up the cable
to the controller, where the discriminator turns it back into bits.
As Al said, you need a discferret or similar product, unless you can
figure out how to run its native controller.
De