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> You might need to pull the hard drive and connect it to a somewhat newer system in order to boot from clonezilla and take the image. Something from the early
by zrm 5y ago
> You might need to pull the hard drive and connect it to a somewhat newer system in order to boot from clonezilla and take the image. Something from the early 2000s with an ATA/33 controller on it should be backwards compatible to almost all of the oldest IDE hard drives. Can be quicker and easier than trying to run clonezilla on the native hardware (or on systems which have no idea of how to boot from a CD-ROM or USB).
Also note that Parallel ATA host bus adapters exist and then you don't even need an old PC, just a ~$20 adapter for a modern one.
- walrus01 5y agoalthough some modern PC BIOSes have problems with manually entering the heads/cylinders as you might find on the label of an IDE hard drive from 1992. additionally I have found that modern udma/133 parallel ata drive controllers have less than perfect compatibility with some very old IDE stuff. while a 'vintage' motherboard like something with an intel 440fx or 440bx chipset from the very late 1990s should work.
- dfox 5y agoAll IDE drives are linear block devices and the CHS numbers set in BIOS are only necessary to make the BIOS happy. The types and CHS numbers were relevant for MFM/RLL harddrives without integrated controller. The IDE interface is essentially an simplified ISA bus on a cable and all of what should be called controller resides on the harddrive, in fact that is what both IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) and ATA (AT Attachment, as in "AT bus" = "16-bit ISA") acronyms alude to. If you only intend to access the drive from Linux (ie. clonezilla) you can simply ignore the BIOS settings as Linux kernel will detect the drive correctly even when it is not configured in BIOS at all.