Re: Backing Up Vulcan

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

What is this... "ISA".... you speak of?

>;-)

-B

mdj wrote:
> sicklittlemonkey wrote:
>
> > Anything else you can think of?
>
> If you really *must* do it with a PC, you'll need to find an old school
> ISA IDE controller. Anything from integrated chipset world dropped
> backwards compatibility with 8 bit IDE...
>
> If you're really lucky, the old PC you have booted into linux might
> allow you to image the drive, by using 'dd' to make a block level copy
> of the device. If it recognises it as a 16 bit drive, it still might
> work but claim that the disk is double the size it really is. A bit of
> post processing would restore the image, which you could then either
> dump back onto a newer disk and process it with CiderPress, or
> alternatively if someone would share the Vulcan partition map details
> you could extract each partition very easily into image files that
> would then be compatible with both CiderPress and many emulators.
> 
> Matt