On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 20:14, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > Oops. I guess the fingers work as good as the memory. Sorry > about that. I've got about 20 of them. I know they haven't > been used since they were taken out of the VAX Cluster I ran > at the University. Nothing I have used the SB boxes with since > then would know what to do with 9GB of disk space. :-) > But, if needed I could probably test them on a PC I have with > an Adaptec SCSI in it. It's intended for Ersatz-11 but I expect > does could use a disk that big. Too bad there's no way to read > them. Might be some interesting stuff left behind by the VAX. > Why is there no way to read them? If you have a PC with a SCSI card you can easily boot into the Linux or BSD distro of your choice and make a dd (or ddrescue) image of the entire drive, which could then be accessed by whatever means. -Henry
