On 25 Mar 2011, at 16:37, Tom Walker wrote:
This is to connect the IDE disc to one of my linux boxes using the USB-
IDE adaptor and then either get the content as an ADFS format image
file, then use the file from each disc in turn as 'hd5.hdf' with
RPCEmu to access the contents.
You could
I am looking for ways to be able to read the content from a number of old
ADFS formatted IDE hard discs from some old RiscPCs.
Ideally, I'm aiming to use a USB-IDE adaptor of the kind sold by CPC or
Maplin. But I have my doubts these will actually work with an Iyonix USB
interface. [1] (Anyone
This is to connect the IDE disc to one of my linux boxes using the USB-
IDE adaptor and then either get the content as an ADFS format image
file, then use the file from each disc in turn as 'hd5.hdf' with
RPCEmu to access the contents.
You could do this. But why bother with the USB-IDE
Hi,
Tom Walker wrote:
I think under Linux you want the 'dd' command to image the discs? Not
sure.
dd(1) would do it, or if the drive has bits that are hard to read and
gives errors look into GNU ddrescue. It's often in the package
gddrescue. Similarly named commands, e.g. dd_rescue, come in
