old disk access

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 15 May 2019 19:15:19 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 16 May 2019 02:40:31 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 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?
> 
> I don't plug these drives into the MB. You bring up an idea - wouldn't
> the IDE controller support be built into the USB device, and not the
> comp? Could that be where the "small drive" problem occurs?

No, since you are using a USB adapter, all of the PATA/IDE driver logic is in 
the USB adapter firmware.  The Linux kernel just sees a USB disk.  It is more 
likely that the disks are beyond recovery, but it might be master/slave 
jumpper issue.

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> > This page was last modified on 9 July 2013:
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