Re: How to mount a PCMCIA hard drive

[Erkki Ruohtula <erkkiruohtula%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:58:30 +0000 (UTC)
Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 15:55:17 +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 12:28:12 +0000 (UTC)
> > Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 01:47:45PM +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote:
> > > > I have a "Centennial MicroDrive", 340 Mb that does into a PCMCIA
> > > > card slot. Inserting it into the T23, I get these dmesg messages
> > > > 
> > > > [ 6743.118863] wdc2 at pcmcia1 function 0: <INTEGRAL
> > > > PERIPHERALS, ATA
> > > > CARD> [ 6743.118863] wdc2: i/o mapped mode
> > > > [ 6743.618871] atabus2 at wdc2 channel 0
> > > > [ 8339.023384] atabus2: detached
> > > > [ 8339.023384] wdc2: detached 
> > > 
> > > There should be a drive on that "atabus2", without the drive you
> > > can not access the card.
> > > 
> > > Not sure why no drive is detected in your case.
> > 
> > I assumed wdc2 is the drive here. But then one would expect it to
> > say "wdc2 at atabus2", not the other way round. I guess I better try
> > finding another machine with Windows or Linux where I can test if
> > the MicroDrive hardware itself is OK. It is many years since I last
> > used it. But machines with PCMCIA slots are getting scarce.
> 
> "wdc" is the "C"ontroller, the drives are "wd".  E.g. from a dmesg
> from Jornada 690 from from https://dmesgd.nycbug.org - a CF card in a
> PCMCIA slot:
> 
> wdc0 at pcmcia1 function 0: <SanDisk, SDCFXPS-032G, >
> wdc0: memory mapped mode
> atabus0 at wdc0 channel 0
> wd0 at atabus0 drive 0
> wd0: <SDCFXPS-032G>
> wd0: drive supports 1-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
> wd0: 30535 MB, 62041 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 62537328
> sectors wd0: 32-bit data port

Thanks, now I know what to look for. So the "wd0:" lines show
features probed from the drive. This failed so maybe the drive
is broken.

Erkki