Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:47:11 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: New storage system suggestinons?

On 14/10/2009, Joel Rowbottom <joel@...> wrote:
> One of the thrusts of my talk last week at WROCC was 'preserving data' from
> old floppies - that particular cut fails somewhat when you start talking
> about ADFS images, and the only failing (if that's the correct word which I
> doubt) of the Datacentre. But it's also something nobody else has done
> either ;)

One of my ongoing tasks is to image all my floppies, so I can use the
likes of DFS/ADFS Explorer to sort out what's on them..  The vast
majority of my discs are in ADFS format, simply because I dealt with a
lot of 1K images, and DFS's 31 file limit is a bit of a limit !  So
far, the easiest way I have found to do it is using the GoMMC to image
each disc to file.  Then I can take the MMC card out, stick it in a
laptop, and copy it up to a NAS..

I've got one of Mark's CF IDE beasties, which is great as a drive in
itself, but won't really work for this particular task.


Rob