Date   : Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:17:29 -0600
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Technomatic hard disk units

Andrew Benham wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
>> Which also begs the question: Anyone know an easy way of dragging a single 
>> arbitrary  sector off the drive (using the "low level" SCSI functionality in 
>> ADFS) and just dumping it to the screen? Picking a few sectors at random 
>> should be a quick test to see if there's salvageable data (rather than just 
>> zeros) on what ADFS thinks is a blank drive...
> 
> There's a disk sector editor around which copes with "not just floppy disk"
> ADFS drives.  As I remember, it wasn't ADI.  I have it at home somewhere.

That would work - but I'm surprised there isn't some magic BASIC one-liner 
that'll just pull the data off the disk via ADFS and splurge it out to the 
screen. If there is intact PANOS data on there then it'll need a raw transfer 
of the whole drive to modern hardware *somehow* for dissection anyway, so it's 
a case of whatever's quickest at this stage just to verify that there's even 
anything there.

cheers

Jules