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From: Jill on 4 May 2008 21:23
Hello.

I have a hard drive removed from an old PS/2 machine that is an ESDI drive
(with the solitary edge connector -- IBM WDL-330P).

Is there a reasonable way to do this using contemporary components?
Are there data shops that do this? It's only a 30 MB drive, so its
entire contents would fit on the smallest thumb drive.

Thanks.


From: Arno Wagner on 4 May 2008 22:52
Previously Jill <jill(a)somewhere.net> wrote:
> Hello.

> I have a hard drive removed from an old PS/2 machine that is an ESDI drive
> (with the solitary edge connector -- IBM WDL-330P).

> Is there a reasonable way to do this using contemporary components?
> Are there data shops that do this? It's only a 30 MB drive, so its
> entire contents would fit on the smallest thumb drive.

Any well equiped data-recovery outfit should be able to help
you. Just get a quote.

For DIY you need an ESDI controller and driver and a mainboard
that has the correct slot for the controller. There are
EADI drives for the ISA slot, and you can still get industrial
mainboards that have one. Also a lot of people have older boards
with ISA slots lying around.

On the software side, DOS plus driver should do the trick,
you may have to transfer the data via floppy though. Linux
may also be able to access an ESDI drive, at least the ISA
variant which, I think, is actually compatible to the old
MFM/RLL controller interface. Not sure about that though.

Arno
From: CJT on 4 May 2008 22:52
Jill wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have a hard drive removed from an old PS/2 machine that is an ESDI drive
> (with the solitary edge connector -- IBM WDL-330P).
>
> Is there a reasonable way to do this using contemporary components?
> Are there data shops that do this? It's only a 30 MB drive, so its
> entire contents would fit on the smallest thumb drive.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
I think a better bet would be to resurrect an old system from that era
and then LapLink the data across. I seriously doubt you'll find any
contemporary system capable of reading it.

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