First post, by devius
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I recently acquired an Olivetti M240 that has a 21MB MFM HDD from Miniscribe, loaded with DOS 3.3 and some kind of stock management program. I would like to make an image of this disk to preserve the data for the future since I'm sure the disk will eventually fail, although it's working fine now.
I took out the MFM controller card and the HDD and put it in a Compaq Deskpro EN (P3-600, 440BX) but it's not detected (obviously), and I have no idea how to make it work in this newer PC. I have both Windows 98 and Fedora 8 installed. Fedora comes with the 2.6.26 kernel which should still have support for MFM HDDs, however it's not detected. Same story with Windows 98. I have not changed any jumpers on the controller card, so I'm thinking it may be set to treat the HDD as the primary disk which could be conflicting with the motherboard's IDE controller.
I have 0 (zero) experience with MFM HDDs, since my first PC was a Compaq Presario 510CDS in late 1994. So, what should I do to make it work in the newer PC so that I can image it properly?