On Thu 29 Mar, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've a ~50MB SCSI hard drive from an Acorn R140 formatted with a single
> ADFS partition (no RISC iX). There's also a Linux x86 2.2.16 machine
> with the adfs.o module loaded.
>
> If I sort out the cabling I intend to use dd to suck the contents of
> the hard drive into a file, transfer that to the Linux machine, and
> then mount it as an adfs filesystem using the loopback device. Is this
> a goer?
It should be fine. It might be just as easy to plug the drive into the x86
(assuming it has a SCSI card?) and mount it directly (or is that what you
meant).
> If not, tell me now and I won't spend time grovelling around in the
> dust with cables.
I haven't actually tried that (ie drive presumably formatted with very old
Acorn SCSI formatter), but it's likely enough to work that it's worth poking
about with.
Wookey
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