[Info-vax] Backup A Dying Disk.

[Chris Scheers]

Jerry Weiss wrote:
> 
> The system I am recovering data from was has been a hobbyist system.  So I'm just trying to recover what I can for my friend who came to Vaxen late.
> 
> I know the Maxtor XT2190 disks have a long history of bit rot.    I haven't seen the root cause (Bearings?  Electronics?) mentioned when I search around the next.  The server has a TK70. I may try to reformat the drive just for the "fun"  if can find the correct MV2000 XXDP program and remember how to generate a bootable tape.   
> 
> Most of my personal museum runs on Seagate SCSI-2 type drives and SCSI2SD emulation.

The MV2000/VS2000 has the RD54 disk formatter built in.

I think it is "T 71" or "T 75" from the console.

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