30 Nov
2011
30 Nov
'11
4:58 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Glen Slick wrote:
As a follow up to Richard's question, does anyone
have any experience
archiving an Xebec S1410 / S1410A SASI controlled drive from a
relatively modern system? If the SASI controller doesn't support the
standard SCSI Inquiry and Read Capacity commands I wouldn't expect
that you could simply connect it to a SCSI host controller on a Linux
box and "dd" the drive contents to a disk image file.
I have sources for a Linux ACB-40xx device driver that might be a basis
for getting the Xebec working. However:
- It's for Linux kernel version 1.2.9 circa-1994
- The Adaptec ACB-40xx boards read their geometry information from a
reserved area on the drive, while the Xebec required this either
hard-coded in EPROM or set by the host at power up.
If you are interested in hacking this into shape, drop me e-mail privately
and I'll send you a tarball.
Steve
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