From: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: Early ATA devices
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070815171952.GA20237@gateway.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070802214706.50c3040c@the-village.bc.nu>
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > So in theory we can persuade libata to drive original MFM/RLL disks with
> > > relatively few changes
> >
> > Does anyone have a working device to test?
>
> I'm currently testing a 40MB pre-ATA IDE drive and with the LBA/non-LBA
> fix I sent to Andrew and the 'its ancient, its PIO < 2 who cares if
> SETXFER isn't a known command' patch likewise it is running.
>
> That one has a pre-ATA version of identify however. Not yet found one
> without to play with
FWIW, I have a Seagate ST225 (still zero bad blocks) with controller.
If I can persuade the old 386 to do a netboot I can test it.
Erik
(sorry for the late reply, BTW)
--
They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll
eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 0:41 Early ATA devices Alan Cox
2007-08-01 6:02 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-02 20:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-15 17:19 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2007-08-15 17:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-01 13:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-01 15:31 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-01 18:06 ` Alan Cox
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