From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
To: Rogier Wolff <Rogier@wolff.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OK, anybody have any hints and tips to get an MFM drive working again?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:54:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41096401.3040404@mnsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729201458.GA19252@bitwizard.nl>
Use a 2.2 kernel.
Rogier Wolff wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We need to recover some data off an old MFM drive. We've got a bunch
>of those cards, we've got a bunch of drives to experment with, but
>once we get things working we'll recover some 2x20Mb of data off two
>20Mb drives....
>
>We've tried the modern IDE driver, and the 2.4.20 one, and the "old
>hd only" driver.
>
>Going "retro": Compiling 2.0.39 gives me: "bus error" while doing
>make dep.
>
>I THINK we have a couple of those cards that don't have any
>interrupts. Would Linux be able to work with those?
>
>Yes, we pass "hda=615,4,17" to the IDE driver.
>
>Any suggestions of things to try?
>
> Roger.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-29 20:14 OK, anybody have any hints and tips to get an MFM drive working again? Rogier Wolff
2004-07-29 20:39 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-07-29 20:40 ` alan
2004-07-29 20:54 ` Jeffrey E. Hundstad [this message]
2004-07-29 21:04 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 21:28 ` alan
2004-07-30 15:58 ` Jeff Woods
[not found] <1091148269.1232.1475.camel@cube>
2004-07-30 5:49 ` Rogier Wolff
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