Reading ESDI disks

[Nigel Johnson]

On 2021-02-11 12:41 p.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/11/21 9:33 AM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
>> I'm about to try the very same thing.
>>
>> I have a MicroVAX II with a sigma MSCP ESDI controller.  It can be set
>> for soft-secoring or various numbers of hard sectors.  That is what I
>> see is the big issue with these drives.
>>
>> A friend gave me two drives that had been written on a PC under *nix.
>
> There is little chance this will work for the same reason you can't use
> an arbitrary disk/controller combination for PC recovery.
>
>
Doesn't stop me trying, Al. Lots of things were achieved by people who
didn't know they couldn't do it!

My controller has settings for different sector sizes.  I owe it to my
friend to try!


Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
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