Hi,
> > If I sort out the cabling I intend to use dd to suck the contents
> > of the hard drive into a file, transfer that to the Linux machine,
> > and then mount it as an adfs filesystem using the loopback device.
> > Is this a goer?
>
> It should be fine. It might be just as easy to plug the drive into
> the x86 (assuming it has a SCSI card?) and mount it directly (or is
> that what you meant).
No, the SCSI machine is a 2.0 series kernel. The 2.2 series machine
has no SCSI. Hence the big disc image.
> > If not, tell me now and I won't spend time grovelling around in the
> > dust with cables.
>
> I haven't actually tried that (ie drive presumably formatted with
> very old Acorn SCSI formatter), but it's likely enough to work that
> it's worth poking about with.
Great, I'll do that.
Ralph.
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