Fairlight-CMI

Hi Brian,

The maker you are referring to is the media descriptor byte, if the
drive is not recognized as a windows / dos type disk, based on the
media indicator, ghost would like to 'rectify' this for you. I recall
it only does this if you want to make a file-by-file image. If you do
a sector copy, it should leave the drive as-is.

If you have an old harddrive handy, you could install linux or another
operating system on it and then do a ghost to check it out. I only
have dos disks here and too little time to test it. However, I used
ghost last week and I was given the option to do a sector copy on an
NT disk that had booted improperly before.

I can very well imagine you don't want to experiment on a Fairlight
disk though.

Regards,
Harald


On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:42:40 +0100 (CET), you wrote:

>Hi Harald
>   
>  Thank you for your advice.
>   
>  I do have Ghost, but I haven't tried copying via Norton Ghost as I was told that Ghost needs to recognize the drive as a windows drive and that Ghost writes some kind of flag on the drive to indicate that the drive has been ghostet.
>   
>  Therefore I've afraid to try out your suggestion. Have any of you darred to do this?
>   
>  Best regards
>   
>  Brian
>  Denmark
>
>Harald Feldmann <feldmann@xs4all.nl> skrev:
>          Hi Brian,
>
>Did you try a program called Ghost ? 
>You can do a sector copy with that one, and store it on a PC if
>needed.
>
>Regards,
>Harald
>
>On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:43:04 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
>
>>Hi Laurent
>> 
>> I do use an external SCSI HD with my CMI III rev. 6.03.
>> 
>> The first external SCSI case include a MFM to SCSI card plus a Maxtor model XT-2190 seriel 2 MFM harddrive with 190 Mb capacity.
>> 
>> The second casing has a Fujitsu M2263SA SCSI harddrive with 680 Mb capacity. I've tried to clone this disk with some raw disc copying programs for windows and dos but without success.
>> 
>> Therefore I'm in constant fear of loosing these drives to harddrive failures because of old age.
>> 
>> I hope this helps you.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Brian
>> Denmark 
>>
>>Laurent LEMAIRE <llemaire1@free.fr> skrev:
>> 
>>I would be interested to know if some of you use SCSI HD with rev 6.03 
>>series 3 ?
>>
>>On mine, I only use Maxtor XT2190 MFM HDs, and I would like to know if 
>>more modern HD are compatible ?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>>Laurent.
>>
>>
>>
>> 
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