[BBC-Micro] Technomatic hard disk units

[Jonathan Graham Harston]

>Message-ID: <459E55B8.8040908 at yahoo.co.uk>
 
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Which also begs the question: Anyone know an easy way of dragging a single
> arbitrary  sector off the drive (using the "low level" SCSI functionality in
> ADFS) and just dumping it to the screen? Picking a few sectors at random
 
DIM X% 31:Y%=X%DIV256
X%?0=0:X%!1=&FFFF7C00:X%?5=8:X%!6=lau%:X%?9=1:A%=&72:CALL &FFF1
 
where lau% is the bigendian sector address.
 
> should be a quick test to see if there's salvageable data (rather than just
> zeros) on what ADFS thinks is a blank drive...
 
http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/IDE/ADFS/Apps/WEDITOR is a simple
Winchester EDITOR. However, the OSWORD &72 interface does need the
drive to contain a valid ADFS root system before it will allow any
access to it. You can't even write a blank filesystem with OSWORD
&72 if there isn't already a filesystem there!
 
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