Re: [HELP] Hard drive on a //e

[cheezy <mo.cheez@wanadoo.fr>]

> Yes, it can.  The BASIC region is probably DOS 3.3-compatible,
> since I think the drive predates ProDOS.
> 
> My only concern would be that the MFM drive is very old, and
> you cannot anticipate a long useful life for it at this point.
> 
> If it were mine, I would get another high-capacity drive (SCSI,
> CompactFlash, Focus,...) and copy the contents of the drive
> to a new medium as soon as possible.  Of course, there is a
> problem with the multi-OS nature of the drive, which is difficult
> to replicate with more modern drives.  If the amount of info stored
> on a "partition" (probably not like we mean partition today) is
> small, then it could be copied to something smaller that the
> OS can handle, like floppies.
> 
> Alternatively, if you have terminal software for each OS, you
> could null-modem the data to a PC for archival storage.
> 
> -michael

Well thanks for your tips. I finally managed to access some of the files and
they are mainly OS/setup files. I don't really care backing it up actually,
but it's fun !

Cheezy