[Info-vax] Disk image viewable in Windows/Linux
Bob Koehler
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Thu Aug 4 10:44:43 EDT 2011
In article <4e39dc42$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>, Sum1 <not at here.com> writes:
> Hi All
>
> I want to make a "copy" of a Files-11 disk that can be viewed in linux
> or Windows. Not operated on in a files sense, but viewed in a disk
> container. A virtual disk was created on PersonalAlpha and
> formatted/filled on VMS8.3. If I look at the virutal disk on
> linux/windows I have no problem seeing the conttents using winnhex etc.
> But, am I seeing the disk "structure" as well, such as bitmap.sys,
> index.sys etc?
>
You are seeing the disk structure, plus any metadata added by
PersonalAlpha. I'm not familiar with PersonalAlpha, it might not
be adding any metadata.
If it's an ODS-2 disk, there is an ODS-2 reader written in C for
Windows, search for it on the 'net. There is an ODS-2 module for
Linux that should be good enought for reading.
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