Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.1.93.. | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:25:21 +0100 (BST) |
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> > With BusLogic SCSI and Mylex DAC960 boards that have their own BIOS there is a > > more fundamental issue: the BIOS itself iterates using the PCI BIOS function in > > order to determine the order of board recognition (and hence which device to > > boot from), and this information *must* be available to the driver. > > That's poor setup feature IMHO. You should suggest Mylex guys to offer > a boot order setup for their products. This will avoid Linux to provide > historical silly things.
Having the option is useful but for 99.9999% of users the Buslogics just work. What is proposed is to screw every single 2.0 Linux user who has two scsi controllers and _completely_ un-neccessarily. Even Bill and co would think twice about that sort of stuff
Alan
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