Richard wrote:
OK, on closer look it appears as though these Eve
drives might be
ESDI/ST-506 and not SCSI. If they are ESDI, how could I archive them?
I think ESDI didn't have (but I could be wrong... brain bit rot and
all... been
a while since I used ESDI) the problems in moving drives between conrollers
like MFM and RLL. Although you might still have the possibility of an
odd blocksize that might give you problems.
I've never seriously used ESDI, but I was under the impression that, like
ST412, it was a 'raw; interface with the bitstream to/from the heads on
the interface connector.
In whcih case there's always the possibility of the controller foing
something unusual and not, say, recording the same sector headers as
other controllers. Maybe 99% of ESDI controllers did do the same things,
but it's that odd 1% that we're likely to have to deal with :-)
-tony