Mastodawn

A question to @polpo & experts regarding #picoide:
I have some old PCs I did not turn on in a looooong time. I have no idea, if the HDDs still work. The picture shows an example HDD from a 486, running DOS and Win 3.11

Could you direct me to some resources:
1. How do I create a disk image e.g. from this drive, which can be emulated with #picoide ?
2. is there some possibility of a "standalone HDD dumping mode", where an HDD is directly connected to a #picoide to have a direct image creation?

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Ian Scott

@makelog Unfortunately PicoIDE lacks the hardware to be a host and read other drives. Fortunately there’s another open source project that can, the ATAboy: https://github.com/redruM0381/ATAboy
It can’t dump images directly with but it shows up as a mass storage device. You can then use tools like dd to make an image from the drive.

GitHub - redruM0381/ATAboy: ATAboy is a user-friendly bridge that allows legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) hard drives to be connected to a modern computer as a standard USB Mass Storage device.

ATAboy is a user-friendly bridge that allows legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) hard drives to be connected to a modern computer as a standard USB Mass Storage device. - redruM0381/ATAboy

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make-log 4d ago

@polpo
Great hint! Thank you very much!