MFM/RLL data recovery

Paxton Hoag innfoclassics at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 17:55:59 CDT 2005


Floppy cable won't work. If you want to use the cable cut the second
connector off and make it a single connector straight through cable.

Another problem I had with early MFM hard drives was they needed to be
read with the same model of controller that formatted them.

For the ST225 look for a DTC 5150 or a western digital 1002-WX1 HD
controller. These were two of the most common HD controllers for XTs.

I doubt that you can read them with any of the 16 bit cards.

When I put away any XT drives that I wanted the data off I kept the
cables and controller card with the drive.
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA


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