On 2/11/21 9:25 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > What is the best way of dumping the contents of an ESDI disk? > > I have an original IBM Enhanced ESDI ISA controller board. Could that be > used under Linux? Or NetBSD/FreeNSD? I googled but didn't find much. > > Is there any other way of dumping the disk contents? > > In theory it should be just a matter of clocking the raw data and finding > the marks and extracting the data. Has anyone done something similar?
I'm a little confused on this. An ESDI drive, in my experience, behaves exactly like an ATA one, right down to the command set. ESDI drives can be soft-or-hard sectored. What am I missing? --Chuck
