Date   : Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:44:45 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: reading data from old hard disk

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:52 -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Probably a S1410. There's a jumper on them for selecting sector size. Problem 
> with them is that they're SASI, not SCSI :-( It's pretty easy to whip up a 
> circuit to drive them (beeb should have enough I/O pins I suspect), and 
> there's even an example circuit and code (Z80, IIRC) in the manual - but 
> that's just more work!
> 
> If you're feeling adventurous, the manual's on bitsavers...

Aha, yes.  I found the manual and that does seem to be the one.

I guess the Beeb ought to be able to talk to this through one of those
Winchester interface boards that plug into the 1MHz bus, right?  I think
those were SASI, and I have a couple of them lying around as well.  Then
it'd "only" be a case of writing a bit of software to set the controller
up correctly and, finally, read the data off.  I guess I could save it
over NFS in 8MB chunks, if only the disk in my MDFS wasn't broken.

p.