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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