Date   : Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:32:05 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: reading data from old hard disk

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:55 +0100, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> If it's from an HDFS, can it not be connected up to the MDFS somehow?

Not easily, I don't think.  

The M2235 disk uses an ST-506 interface and is presumably formatted with
256-byte sectors since this is what its documentation seems to assume.
The MDFS uses a SCSI interface and, I think, expects 512-byte sectors.

Even leaving aside the sector size problem, you'd need to find a bridge
board that would interface ST-506 to SCSI (not SASI) and that was
completely transparent, without needing the host to send any special
initialisation sequence.  I'm not sure if such things exist or not.

p.