Re: Backing Up Vulcan

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If the BIOS can't identify it, Linux won't be able to use it either.

Somewhere out there must be an old 808x system kept as a collector's
item...

Given a disk image of a Vulcan drive it shouldn't be hard to figure out
the partition format.

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