21 Nov
2005
21 Nov
'05
10:51 p.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
Hmm, if you can ever do a raw image dump of that, shout! :-)
I've got a level-3 server hard disk which I can't get in to as I don't know
any passwords; I think I can get around this with the utils disk, except that
it isn't online anywhere...
The drive in question is another one used internally by Acorn, so it's
possible that it has some interesting stuff on it. I can boot it via a Master
Turbo and Winchester unit hooked up to a simple Econet, I just then can't do a
lot apart from shut it down again (because as you say the filesystem is
something other than ADFS). It may have been emptied of user data for all I
know, but I'd like to check *before* the disk keels over :-)
[Econet test box]
Is that this critter? :
http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/ETB.html
cheers
Jules
On Nov 20 2005, 18:29, Tony Duell wrote:
They didn't just stack them (as was intended by design)? Not practical for the
ST506 units I suppose is it'd only support two drives, but the SCSI ones I
think could be piled up to the limit of the SCSI bus - ie. 6 devices. 360MB
would not be at all bad for the time, considering the nature of the data which
tended to be stored on them.
Is there any restriction on the hard disk size?
There will be some limit, but I'm not sure what it is. More than 20MB,
for sure. Might be 500MB, maybe less. I know that stacking filestores
use the same code, and I know that although the largest ones sold and
supported by Acorn were 60MB, they had bigger in-house. Accordign to
the manual, there is a utility disk for this unit, and
maybe
a service disk too (it's not clear whether
this is one disk or two).
The
former contained the program to format the
winchester, and is
therefore
somewhat importent.
Yes, two 3.5" floppies. And I just happen to have a set :-) One is
for use with a Master 128 called "M128-FSUTILS" Amazingly I
have this test box, I don't have the software.
Ditto! The test box pre-dates the Master series, though. It was
around when Beebs were.