> At the most recent CoCoFEST!, I brought home the old Glenside Club > Computer Hard Drive. The mechanism is an ST-251, and I was wondering > if someone on-list would be willing to attempt to pull data off the > drive. I have no ability to configure to read this drive type, and > the data is not precious or anything, I just though we should try to > pull it off for historical sake.
The best way to approach this, given the interchange issues with MFM disk controllers, is probably to use one of Dave Gesswein's MFM Emulator devices. It'll give you a flux image that can then be decode. There may not be a decoder for the CoCo format yet, but it's probably not too far different from other common things, so hopefully it could be constructed fairly easily. The MFMEmu community seems to be willing to help with this. De