Date   : Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:25:37 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Tube File Copying

I did try connecting the LVROM player up to the A5000 before I
started all this, but my Cumana & Lingenuity podules didn't even
recognise it as a device, never mind access it.

That's the most "modern" machine I have with SCSI.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Richardson
To:   bbc-micro@...
Sent:  Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:44:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: Tube File Copying

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Most of the files are manageable, it's just DATA1 on CommunityN
> which is 104MB and DATA2 is 41MB.  These are causing the headache
> and I did actually copy the rest of the data off CommunityS about
> 2 years ago without any trouble.

As I recall the player should be regular SCSI-1 though and I believe it does 
support the inquiry command, so surely hooking it up to any modern machine 
that has a SCSI bus should allow you to copy the data off without lots of 
messing around?

(I'm sure either the Camelion or Domesday 1986 lot would just give you 
necessary images if needs be!)

> I am trying to keep the use of the Domesday Machine down to
> a minimum.  Thankfully the hardware I have is about as good as
> you could hope for, I haven't had half the problems that many
> have had in trying to run Domesday.

Never had any troubles myself (other than the usual remembering how to 
configure and navigate the thing each time :-)  but I've seen (and fixed) a 
fair few players - 'orrible things they are, even if they are bloody clever.