[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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