Imaging DEC uVAX MFM drives

[Zane H. Healy]

> The RD53 is from uVAX II with a RQDX3.

And this makes me think of something I don't think anyone has directly
warned you of.  Sort out everything with another drive than this.  *IF* it
will spin up, you want to get the data off of it without powering it back
down.  RD53's were unreliable 10-20 years ago, they can't have gotten any
better :^(

> The RD23 is from a uVAX I with a RQDX3.

RD23?  Assuming this isn't a typo, what on earth is an RD23?

> (BTW, it also have a VAXstation 3100-m38 with RZ(something) SCSI drive 
> which I successfully imaged on a PC with SCSI capabilities)

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> Yep, I think Pat's idea to do a diskless/network boot of NetBSD and then 
> image off from there is the way to go. 

Actually you might have another solution here.  Is the VAXstation 3100-m38
running VMS?  If it is, has TCP/IP, and the SCSI HD has enough free space,
simply net-boot VMS.  Though if you're more comfortable with Pat's idea,
it's probably the better solution.

		Zane