Re: OK, anybody have any hints and tips to get an MFM drive workingagain?

[Jeffrey E. Hundstad]

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. 
>
>  
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