Date   : Mon, 02 Aug 2004 21:50:31 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Winchester user manual scan anywhere?

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 20:26, Chris Johns wrote:
> > Is there an ADFS equivalent to DFS's *dump and *list commands? Being
> > able to see the contents of the files on the drive would be handy :-)
> 
> If you have 1770 DFS and ADFS installed you should be able to use the
> commands.

d'oh, yep that did the trick :) So far no head crash, but the drive
emits a continuous banshee scream peppered with the occasional deafening
roar. Those bearings aren't going to hold up much longer! 

There's some interesting stuff on the drive, including some references
and details on Brazil (the OS as used on the ARM Evaluation Kit IIRC), a
mysterious thing called ARX (see
http://www.fact-index.com/a/ar/arx.html), and what appears to be an
Australian-built machine called Squirrel which had a lot of BBC-like
features; I can't find any public information on the latter.

The drive looks to have belonged to Jon Thackray during his days of
programming for Acorn machines - A quick google gives the impression
that he should be contactable so I'll have to drop him an email...

> > Usual
> > headaches apply regarding 256 byte sectors, lack of drive geometry,
> > ancient SCSI protocols and blah blah blah though :-)
> 
> If you have an econet server you could always copy it all to that, I
> believe there are programs that do that.

Hmm, that might be a viable option. My main worry is time; I don't know
how long this drive will last before it goes pop - I'd certainly not
expect it to last the few hours needed to transfer data with Xfer
(assuming Xfer can work with hard drives and not just floppy images
anyway)

cheers

Jules