Non-512-byte sector drive cloning?
Cory Smelosky
b4 at gewt.net
Wed Feb 11 17:05:29 CST 2015
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, John Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:56:57PM -0500, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> Before I go ANY further...I want to image the boot/microcode drives
>> which aren't 512-byte sectors. What's the best approach?
>
> If you can dig up a DOS PC (FreeDOS should be fine but not an emulated or
> virtualized DOS) with a SCSI adapter that's old enough to have a DOS ASPI
> driver available, my PUTR.COM *should* be able to do it. (Never tested
> with non-512-b/s sectors, but it uses the sector size reported by the drive
> rather than hard-coding for 512 so it should work.) www.dbit.com/putr and
> the commands would be something like:
>
Hmmmmm. Not sure if My SCSI adapter'd let me connect this drive to it...
> mount x: scsi1: /foreign
> copy /file /dev x: image.dsk
>
> HTH,
>
> John Wilson
> D Bit
>
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