If you can't get help at the VCF - MW (which I don't doubt), and your MicroVAx II has a DELQA or DEQNA network adapter, then I know of two other elegant ways to back up the data from your ESDI disk: Either: configure your MicroVAX II into a Local Area VAXcluster using the instruction in https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing,_Configuring,_and_Testing_A_VMS_V4.7_Local_Area_VAXcluster_on_SIMH or: follow the blog at https://rsx11.blogspot.com/2021/09/vaxstation-1-software-install-part-1.html and https://rsx11.blogspot.com/2023/08/installing-software-on-microvax-and.html
Don't hesitate to ask for help; the first alternative is my work, and I worked a little on the second one. Ulli P.S. I own a QD21 (but no working ESDI drive), but I will not attend the VCF - MW, because I live in Germany ... Am Fr., 1. Sept. 2023 um 16:50 Uhr schrieb Jon Elson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > I will be going to the VCF - MW. Does anybody have an > Emulex QD21 that could dump a hard drive for me? I ran a > uVAX II at home of 21 years. Sometime back about 2000 or > so, I upgraded to a cast-off SCSI disk, which eventually > died. I didn't have a convenient backup solution for the > SCSI disk, so the old 600 MB ESDI drive is kind of my most > recent backup. I have a copy of VMS 4.7 on that. > > It would be great if somebody could recover what is on that > drive. If I were to set up the uVAX II here, I would not > have a very good way to get the data off the drive except > the serial port - that might take a WHILE! > > thanks, > > Jon > >
