Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:40:04 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Kernel newbie finds "infelicity", if not bug, in IDE[-PROBE].C ? |
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BROWN Nick wrote: ... > I rebooted (this is all on 2.0.36, but bear with me, the problem still seems > to be there in 2.2.1 at least) and paid close attention to the messages. > When the IDE driver started, it said > hda: WDC AC23200L, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1023/130/63, UDMA > Previously, this has been > hda: WDC AC23200L, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=787/128/63, UDMA ... > - Mark Lord's comment before probe_cmos_for_drives(): > <snip> > * Of course, there is no guarantee that either drive is actually on the > * "primary" IDE interface, but we don't bother trying to sort that out > here. ...
That "probe_cmos_for_drives()" fragment is one of the few surviving bits from Linus's original hd.c driver.
Nowadays (in 2.3.xx) we could/should just trash it. -- mlord@pobox.com
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