Date   : Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:28:17 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Tube File Copying

I'm sure that would do the trick, but that's cheating in my book! I
am doing my best to find a purely Acorn solution (MDFS
notwithstanding!!) to this peculiarly Acorn problem.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Tomlinson
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent:  Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:09:50 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: Tube File Copying

In article <9C47CEA313F3492FB928A1AE513475DB.MAI@...>, Ian
Wolstenholme <BBCMailingList@...> writes

>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.

Hold on.  The Domesday player has a SCSI interface.  Connect it to a
Linux machine with a SCSI card and make a bit-by-bit image of the disc
using dd.


>The resistor pack in the Master SCSI interface runs hot - and I
>mean hot, it will burn your fingers if you touch it

That _cannot_ be normal. Something's wrong.

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