I was keen to find a way to archive files from the MicroVAX hard disk. In time i may acquire a hard drive emulator or even get Kermit up and running, but with the disk being a time-bomb i need to get the critical stuff off now.
The 30MB disk is about 90% full so it would take a lot of floppies to do the lot – about 75! A lot of it is system files, but i can still easily see 30 disks being required. Practically it is easier to use solid state storage even if it is still limited to 400kB at a time.
Flashfloppy on a gotek supports the RX50 disk format. A configuration file is required. The key lines are:
interface = shugart
host = decI found this worked well with the IMG files that i read with Greaseweazle. The Microvax was happy to initialize disks and copy over data.