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

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Sat Sep 26 02:47:17 CDT 2020


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



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