RAED_DMA timed out crap

[kalin mintchev]

good advices...  didn't know about the atacontrol....   thank you all...


> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
>
> Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter.  The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop
> drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.5-inch drive.
>
> Before doing that, though, it's worth downloading a copy of the FreeSBIE
> CD and booting with that:
>
> http://www.freesbie.org/
>
> Even if you can't mount the hard drive, you at least ought to be able to
> dd data from it.
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
>


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