From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265255AbUG2U5s (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:57:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265245AbUG2U5r (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:57:47 -0400 Received: from Mail.MNSU.EDU ([134.29.1.12]:39634 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265255AbUG2Uy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:54:28 -0400 Message-ID: <41096401.3040404@mnsu.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:54:25 -0500 From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rogier Wolff CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OK, anybody have any hints and tips to get an MFM drive working again? References: <20040729201458.GA19252@bitwizard.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040729201458.GA19252@bitwizard.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > >