Default password for Pick system on an AT?

[Bjørn Vermo]

On 16 Jun, 2005, at 20:22, Jay West wrote:

> Richard wrote...
> ...
>> One concern is that I did NOT get any install disks or docs, and the
>> hard drive this is on is an ancient one, making funny noises....
>> Hopefully it'll last a little while....
> FYI - Pick/AT uses a totally nonstandard disk format. However, at 
> least it obeys FDISK rules and lives in a partition. A replacement 
> drive would have to be identical, and your copy would have to be "bit 
> level", nothing that tries to understand a "filesystem".

I have no knowledge of the details of Pick, but if it uses 
FDISK-compatible partitions it should also use standard sectors. In 
that case, it should be possible to copy to a larger disk drive, just 
deliberately wasting disk space by not using the extra sectors per 
track. It means you would have to do sector-level copying, but unless 
the system is really weird it ought to work.

-- 
-bv