Date   : Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:52:21 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: reading data from old hard disk

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:22 -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 1) Adaptec bridge, BBC micro, the modified xfer software[1] (which works with 
> hard disks), and serial-link the data across to a modern machine,
> 
> 2) Adaptec / Xebec / OMTI bridge [2], SCSI controller, PC running whatever 
> 2.4.x kernel it was that was reported to work (by Rhys, IIRC) with the 
> Domesday player a few weeks ago, then whip up some C code to read raw blocks 
> from the drive using the sg interface.

Right, yeah, I guess that could work.  I think I do have a couple of
bridge boards of some description lying around somewhere, but I don't
recall whether they're for MFM or ESDI.  I'll have to go and have a
little root around in the garage and see what I can track down.

> What's the history of this drive - is that HDFS as in SJ Research, or HDFS as 
> in hierarchical filesystem?

As in SJ Research.  It was originally used with a SCSI bridge board, but
I don't know which variety.  

p.