Disabling SCSI parity checking to dump disk on ACB4000 MFM-SCSI adapter?

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Sun Sep 27 18:43:49 CDT 2020


On 09/26/2020 02:47 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 9/25/20 8:22 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>
>> If it would work, I wonder if you could then use 
>> something like Ghost to copy the drive to an image or 
>> another more standard drive that could then more easily 
>> be worked with.
>>
>>
>>
>
> DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE A PC MFM CONTROLLER WITH DISKS FROM 
> EARLY BRIDGE BOARDS
>
> There is a thread on VCF where someone tried to read a 
> disk from a Viasyn S100
> system with a PC controller and it silently REWROTE the 
> contents of cyl 0
>
> You have been warned
>
>
Cutting the write wire should prevent that!

Jon


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