[NTLK] Factory calibration problem

[Jeff Sheldon]

Victor,

What type of HDD is it?  There are dirt cheap IDE-to-SD card adapters which, while not especially fast, make SD cards appear as a typical IDE drive.


-Jeff

> On Jun 13, 2018, at 16:18, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
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> Sure, I could drop $400 USD on a USB linear flash reader, or only $100 on a PCI card solution.  But what would be the fun in that?
> 
> To make a really long story short: I have a circa 2006 laptop with a PCI-to-CardBus bridge and slot.  The HDD in this machine is dead, making installing and running an operating system a USB key based affair.
> 
> Initially I tried Linux-es from USB, but in later Linux kernels (2.6+) it got harder to make it detect any old SRAM or linear flash card as a memory device.  I think I got pretty far with Damn Small Linux, since it's still kernel 2.4 based, but it's a really weird distro to work with.  I'm not even sure that kernel 2.4 supports my CardBus controller.
> 
> Then I thought I could use DOS and the old DOS-based Intel flash tools that I archived on UNNA.org many many, *many* years ago (thanks, me!).  Setting up DOS 6.22 gave me bad, bad flashbacks ;) But those tools don't want to detect my CardBus controller.
> 
> Anyways, I just found some more information about the Linux path which I hadn't seen before that looks very helpful, so I'll probably get back to it soon.
> 
> 
>> On 2018-06-13 02:59 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote:
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>>> On Jun 13, 2018, at 06:46, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
>>> If only I had some 1990s era laptop hardware still...
>> What exactly do you need?
>> 
>> Also, writing linear flash cards via USB should be solvable.
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