On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Christian Groessler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 08/11/17 19:58, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: > >> And just to make it interesting, I have a number of hard disks (5mb to >> maybe 20mb) of both 5.35" and 8". I've got several Lobo drives 8" hard >> drives that I would love to get the information from since they came from >> Lobo Drives when they shut down. Controllers could be a problem there. > > I love kyroflux for the 300 rainbow floppies I just did. But you'll need a supported drive, and the more exotic formats are dicier on main-stream drives, though even the flippies work. And you can store it as flux transitions, raw track data or arrays of sectors when reading data. I thought I'd need that for the rainbow disks, but only the 123 disks had any kind of odditiy as copy protection, but there's patches to cope with that. > a related question (wanted to ask since long, but this post reminded me > now): > > Is there a similar tool like IMD to dump (MFM-) hard disks? > There's a MFM emulator that also reads MFM hard disks. https://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml is what I've used to image a couple of MFM hard disks that I have. It also emulates MFM drives, which makes it easy to switch between Venix and MS-DOS on my Dec Rainbow. Warner
