Date   : Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:58:38 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Winchester user manual scan anywhere?

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:27, Chris Johns wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> > Failing a copy of the user manual anywhere, how do I access the drive?
> > Does it just appear as a large floppy drive surfaces (or collection of)
> > and so say *.n will bring up a directory listing?
> 
> Selecting ADFS and doing *. should give you the directory listing. 

Yep, that worked :) Wasn't happy on a B+ (which was the machine that was
out on the bench at the time) but worked against a regular B.

The drive got louder and louder as it warmed up though, so I've shut
down for the moment - I don't think it'll run for long before it suffers
a head crash. 

Looks like it's also got plenty of source, binaries and other files
related to Topologika, so is worth a look if the drive hangs together
for long enough.

Is there an ADFS equivalent to DFS's *dump and *list commands? Being
able to see the contents of the files on the drive would be handy :-)

I might try and hook the drive (via the Adaptec board) up to the PC in
order to take a raw image of it before it explodes though. Usual
headaches apply regarding 256 byte sectors, lack of drive geometry,
ancient SCSI protocols and blah blah blah though :-)

cheers

Jules