old disk access

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 May 2019 08:40:31 pm Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:

> The mobo I'm using at the moment has got no PATA/IDE connectors at
> all. Assuming new kernels would suffer from an IDE controller
> support regression, how many users would report this upstream?
>
> This page was last modified on 9 July 2013:
> https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Ralf, you are undoubtedly, from previous posts in this thread, dealing 
with mfm hardware, with has two cables per drive, one wider one for 
control, 34 pin ISTR and a narrower 20 pin ISTR one for data.

That interface has been dead for at least 20 years, maybe more.  Any 
drives that still exist will need a gentle sideways blow on a corner 
within 10 seconds of powerup with an 8oz dead-blow hammer to break the 
head stiction loose and let them start.  And you'll like have to locate 
a copy of redhat 5.0 from about 1998 in order to get the mfm style 
drivers.

That has to be very valuable data.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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