21 Jul
2003
21 Jul
'03
9:03 p.m.
At 10:24 PM 7/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
Wow! that's a whopper for a HP-IB drive! I used to have a 7963 drive
that was about 900 Mb IIRC (all three disks installed) but I don't know if
it's still around or not.
It gives some sort of number instead of HFS or LIF.
Hmmm. I've never seen that before.
I was hoping it had gotten farther along.
He's working on it. I know he's eagerly collecting images from various
drives in an attempt to dope out the file systems. I have some drives that
I need to read but his SW only runs under W98 and I don't have a HP-IB
setup in a W98 system.
Joe
Yep, I can boot. But the backup tapes are not bootable. And the SRM
software
chokes in the Viper board. Complains that a drive is
not attached to the
high
speed buss.
Hmmm. Interesting. So it will only boot from a device on the HS bus? I
haven't seen that before. I know the tape drive isn't a HS device but it
may still work on that interface.
Also do you HAVE to have a 7937? I have some
7957s, 7958, 9153s and
other CS-80 drives.
If I go back with the origianl configuration, I need a "large" drive. I
think the
7937 is 571 meg. Couple of
questions:
1) What format is the SRM backups in? LIF? HFS? Other?
AFIK backups aren't in any specail or compressed format. They're in the
same format as the operating drives. I've neve rused the SRM OS so I don't
know what format it uses but if you do a CAT of a drive it will tell you at
the top of the listing what the format is. 2) Peter
Brown, would you share your software?
I'm sure that he will share it but it's not going to help much. It just
does a raw data dump. It doesn't care about directories, sub-directories,
file allocation or anything else. it just starts at sector 1 bit 1 and
dumps the entire drive.
Thanks
Max