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

[alan]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 21:14, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > I THINK we have a couple of those cards that don't have any 
> > interrupts. Would Linux be able to work with those?
> 
> The old hd driver should support this in 2.4 and 2.6. Its fair to
> say that neither hd.c nor xd.c get much testing nowdays. One of the
> biggest problems tends to be finding a machine you can use the old MFM
> cards in because any motherboard disk controller will clash.

Not to mention that many MFM boards were not very static resistant and 
tended to die if handled without proper grounding.  (I lost one that way.)


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