26 Apr
2014
26 Apr
'14
4:15 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
Sent: 26 April 2014 23:42
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Checking Contents of Unknown Disks
On 04/26/2014 03:21 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
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I have some SCSI disks with unknown contents
which I would like to
check before overwriting them. I don't even know what OS they were
used with. The only systems I have to hand with SCSI are MicroVAXen,
so I can check them for VMS format without issue. However, for the
ones that are not VMS format I would need a way to find out what format
they are.
I don't know what facilities VMS gives you, but I normally drag the first
off an unknown disk and just look at it in a hex
editor.
Actually, it shouldn't be too hard to write the code to read the raw blocks
off a disk in VMS. I think I will do it as an exercise as it should be fun
and a chance to remember how to program on VMS again.
Regards
Rob