Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:04:33 +0100 (BST)
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester unit

On Jul 6, 11:31, Richard Gellman wrote:

> Well now. I have something you may well be interested in.
>
> A while back, I construted a device consisting of a butchered
parallel
> cable, a 50-way SCSI ribbon, and a 25-way D connector. I also put
> together some DOS software to use it. It can connect to an ADFS
> formatted drive on a SCSI interface, and using very basic commands
> extract the information thereof, and even skips over the "free
spaces".

Quite a neat achievement :-)

> Tis a tad slow mind. Takes about a day to do 100Mb.

That's not bad, considering.  I remember copying demos between two 20MB
MFM disks on an Archimedes, and that took not much less than a minute a
megabyte with a reasonable controller.

-- 
Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York