One concern is
that I did NOT get any install disks or docs, and the
hard drive this is on is an ancient one, making funny noises....
Hopefully it'll last a little while....
I assume it's an MFM or RLL hard drive? It'll be a little but of work,
but if you have a suitable Linux box handy you should install an MFM/RLL
controller and find a duplicate of the drive installed in the Pick box
(that might be difficult as well) and run dd to duplicate it to the
second.
It is either an MFM or RLL drive. I haven't pulled the drive or
cleaned the dust to verify which. According to the sticker someone
taped in to the front of the drive, it is a 15MB (FULL height, 5.25"),
type 2 in the AT setup (I've no idea what cyls/heads/secs that refers
to, so I'll have to pull the drive and hope it is labeled).
Heresy, I know, but I don't have a Linux box :-)... Also, please
don't tell me "you ought to set one up" ... I don't wish to fan
advocacy flames, so let's just drop it there.
Would something like Ghost work? I've never tried it on small, old drives.
I do have a DOS box (p-133), so if there's some DOS/WIN 3.1 utility to
do the same thing, I could use that ....
I'll see if I can dig anything up on my end, and I might just give
Ghost a try ... meantime, if anyone knows of another DOS/WIN31 way to
make a drive image of an old MFM/RLL drive, I'm all ears.
Rich B.