Yes. I had an AS/400 disk with too many grown defects. I imaged it with
sg_utils and transferred the content back to an identical disk. It booted
flawlessly...
I installed also the Windows servers :)
Great teardown, now I don't need to do it myself :)
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 07:26:49AM +0200, supervinx wrote:
> http://www.supervinx.com/OnlineMuseum/IBM/AS400/9406/170/
Well... AS/400 scsi drives are recognized by the string IBM AS/400, during the
inquiry phase.
They can be used in a standard PC, if reformatted at 512 bytes/sector, since
OS/400 use 520 bytes/sector.
If they come unformatted or degaussed, you can reformat it at 520 under a *nix
system with
Even if your time is expired (there are some hacks to avoid this...) you can
log into the system as user QSECOFR through the console (terminal 0 on twinax
line 0). For an hobbyistic use sometimes it's enough...
