I have a customers AWA12000 in the shop and found the first problem - a bad lithium battery - however when I have tried to archive the hard drive I find that the Baker software won't run on any of my copies. So I assume the drive has some sort of copy protection.
Baker no longer services this machine (obsolete) and will not provide ANY service information unless you are a member of their service organization. Baker was bought out by another company, but I'm calling it Baker as they built the thing.
So, the operating system is W2K, the copies boot up fine, they just won't run the Baker code. I consider this fair use as we are just trying to protect the companies investment in this tool (cost $18,000USD when new back in 2000) as the replacement units are now $40K USD! The customer does not have the backup floppies for the original code, but does have the licenced W2K CD.
I tried first with Miray's Dolly - no success at all, so I then tried my CSC HDS-4000 IDE duplicator, which made copies and claimed no errors, but these are the ones that work until I try running the analyzer code.
I figure this is some sort of soft sector copy protection, so don't want to run Spinright on the drive as that may 'fix' the problem and leave us with a big door stop.
Anyone familiar with the CSC duplicator and knows some tricks that might help?
Thanks!
John :-#)#