Date   : Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:05:26 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: reading data from old hard disk

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 19:51 +0100, Alex Taylor wrote:
> Another possible option might be to use something like an Archimedes
> 400-series, which has an MFM controller on the motherboard, and some
> software to dump the disk off. I don't know if something to do that
> already exists or not.

Do you know if the 400-series disk controller (HD63463 apparently)
supports 256-byte sectors?  I couldn't track down a datasheet for that
one on the web either.  If I remember right, ADFS uses 512-byte sectors
natively on the Archimedes.

p.