16 Jun
2005
16 Jun
'05
4:52 p.m.
From: "Richard Beaudry" <richard.beaudry at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:34 PM
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.
Linux may be easier, luckily there is no need to "set one up". Get knoppix
it runs from a CD:
http://www.linuxiso.org/
I carry a CD around just so when I'm at a clients I have a known set of
tools handy.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
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.