14 Aug
2016
14 Aug
'16
5:41 a.m.
Looking at
http://www.vaxarchive.org/hardware/mfm/index.html
the RD51 is a 10Mb Seagate ST412 disk with a DEC label on it. I think you
should therefore be able to image it with one of these:-
http://www.vaxarchive.org/hardware/mfm/index.html
Now I have two bare boards for these obtained at great expense because of
the Royal Mail charging me ?8.00 (about $10.00) for collecting the VAT which
just about doubled the cost.
I also have a Beagle Board which is needed to run the thing, but I haven?t
obtained any of the other parts needed to build them, and I am not going to
get one built before (insert movable deadline)...
... perhaps we could get the bits an build one at Dec Legacy.. Assuming I
get there....
Dave Wade
EA7 KAE (& G4UGM)
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Subject: RE: Imaging and Emulating Rainbow
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rob
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Sent: 14 August 2016 11:55
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Subject: Imaging and Emulating Rainbow
I have a Rainbow 100+ with a working hard disk. I want to image the
disk before it fails and then emulate the Rainbow. The disk is an RD51
and appears to have 4 partitions on it.
For imaging my first thought is to put the disk into a MicroVAX II,
net
boot the
MicroVAX into VMS and do a BACKUP/PHYSICAL,
copying the image to a
SIMH tap file. There shouldn't be any issues with this I assume?
Oh dear. VMS would not let me MOUNT/FOREIGN, it said:
%MOUNT-F-FORMAT, invalid media format
So I couldn't mount it to do the BACKUP/PHYSICAL.
What options do I have to image this disk?
Regards
Rob