Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Submitting PROMISE IDE Controllers Driver Patch | Date | Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:12:25 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > RAID class devices at all. This would just prevent > > us from having two different entries in the > > device detection list. Not much more involved I think. > > There's one tiny glitch: there are exactly 2 "real" raid devices out there > (that I know of at least). But anyway, a "don't look at" list will be > MUCH shorter than a "look also at" list.
Correct. Without the Supertrak series detection code in there anyone booting a kernel will *really* upset their hardware raid array. Fortunately all we have to do is to spot promise ide chips beyond an i960 as the current code does.
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