On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:20 PM Chris Zach via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Well, after waiting almost a month for the USPS to deliver a "Priority > Mail 1 day" package from Dave I now have the MFM reader card. So I > started working on these disks I rescued. First up was a ST506 (labelled > "RD50" by DEC) and a pair of ST412's. > > Bad news: No drives spun up > Good news: You can take the controller board off the drives and spin the > spindles by hand. > Better news: The spindles spun (clockwise, viewed from bottom) > Best news: spinning while powering on got all three to spin up. > Congrats! > So far I imaged the RD50 (possibly a Rainbow or a Pro/350) and one of > the ST412's. It came up as a PERQ_T2 format and I have two dumps of the > disk with only one bad sector reported. > > Anyone know what to do with this kind of image? I've powered down the > drives and will store them till I can figure out how to make them run > more quietly.... > I'd love a copy of the T2 image, and if it has POS filesystems on it I should be able to extract files. Regardless I should be able to boot it on my T2 to find out what's on it... - Josh > > C >
