On 2/11/21 9:33 AM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
I'm about to try the very same thing.I have a MicroVAX II with a sigma MSCP ESDI controller. It can be set for soft-secoring or various numbers of hard sectors. That is what I see is the big issue with these drives. A friend gave me two drives that had been written on a PC under *nix.
There is little chance this will work for the same reason you can't use an arbitrary disk/controller combination for PC recovery.