If a drive "reads" slowly, generally it's a disk-surface issue. I had an old Sony 20MB drive in the 90s that I had to take the top off of, manually spin-to-start, and keep a desk fan on for the purpose of copying all those precious one-of-a-kind files to another hard drive.
Here's a radical idea: Put an Adaptec PCI SCSI card into an older PC (Pentium III/4) and boot an .iso burned to a blank CD of MHDD disk surface utility on that drive. In colored sectors, by speed, it will tell you what shape the surface of that Rodime is really in, without erasing or altering the content. The burn progam of choice for that old PC? burnatonce. all one name, no spaces. Jeff ________________________________ From: Geoffrey Oltmans <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 9:12 AM Subject: Rodime Installer software? Does anyone have a copy of the Rodime Disk Installer software that's earlier than the v2.03 copy that's floating around on the internet? I am trying to resurrect an S20+ drive which has an R0652 in it. From what I have been able to determine from looking around on old usenet archives, it appears that this drive has problems with newer disk drivers due to it having a pseudo-standard implementation of SCSI. Apparently Apple patched their own HD SC Setup utility to support this correctly on the Mac SE after they broke it while adding support for the second source Miniscribe drive. Unfortunately, this drive doesn't have Apple firmware on it otherwise I'd use the Apple utility. I'm wondering if I'd have better luck with the older Rodime installer utility (v1.xx). The newer one crashes while attempting to probe the drive. All the third party utilities I have used on the drive "kinda work". The one I'm using now, Lido will let me use the drive, but writing anything to disk is S--L--O--W. Alternatively, if some kind individual has one of these drives with Apple firmware and can pop out the EEPROM and dump the contents and send it to me, that would be awesome. :) -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
