28 Dec
2003
28 Dec
'03
11:11 p.m.
Spotted this on a UK auction site:
http://sumo.ebid.co.uk/perl/objects/auction.cgi?auction=1067709373-87555-0&…
Terrible description, though something of a bargain. (Seller has a few
other old bits too.)
But made me think, following on from a discussion of floppy formats
recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
that could read this if I hook it up to a PC, or am I best just connecting
it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
Rob
29 Dec
29 Dec
9:54 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
But made me think, following on from a discussion of
floppy formats
recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
that could read this if I hook it up to a PC,
Very little in the way of usable tools.
In addition, there are numerous mutually incompatible hard disk formats
for the XT, to the point where you shouldn't even switch to a different
brand of controller without reformatting! (Many of those different
formats are as trivially different as whether sector numbers start at 0 or
at 1, etc.)
On the AT, format was standardized, and drives/controllers are
interchangeable.
or am I best just connecting
it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
YES!!!!!
12:29 p.m.
But made me think, following on from a discussion of
floppy formats
recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
that could read this if I hook it up to a PC, or am I best just connecting
it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
Not easily. As was discussed here a month or so back, ST506 controllers
could 'do their own thing' with the sector headers, etc. It's very
possible that the PC controller and the Beeb one [1] are going to be
incompatible. In which case software won't help
[1] If this was the Acorn hard disk controller, then it was probably an
Acorn SASI/SCSI host adapter and an Adaptec ACB4000 bridge board. if you
can find the latter, you might be able to link it to a PC scsi card (but
I would suggest you make it the only device on the SCSI bus, and have
your PC's normal hard disk on a separate interface).
-tony
12:51 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
Spotted this on a UK auction site:
http://sumo.ebid.co.uk/perl/objects/auction.cgi?auction=1067709373-87555-0&…
Terrible description, though something of a bargain. (Seller has a few
other old bits too.)
But made me think, following on from a discussion of floppy formats
recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
that could read this if I hook it up to a PC, or am I best just connecting
it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
Probably better to do it that way. The format of drives of that era
were very much a function of the BIOS on the HDC and unless you
were able to install a similar HDC in the PC, you would likely
have difficulties in reading the HD.
- don
Rob
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