Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:34:12 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9 |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:09:47PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Does INT13/INT19 Bios call mean anything? > > To me, no. I do not know anything about IDE. :) > > I thought we were talking about SCSI PCI drivers here.
Under x86 SCSI is hooked w/ INT13/INT19 calls, that is how you can boot a SCSI "Direct-Access", that is why I moved away from ATA and was hoping it would be "generic storage"
> > The problem is how do you deal with multiple HOSTs given there drivers are > > not (have not checked lately) capable of discrete HOST addition and > > removal. > > > > SCSI/ATA share the same problem IIRC, the host/chipset drivers load all > > the device hosts who match that driver code. > > > > What am I missing? > > Nothing. It is the same problem for IDE PCI drivers. In order for PCI > Hotplug to work on these devices, they have to implement the 2.4 pci > interface. If they do that, they work with PCI hotplug systems. If > they do not, they don't.
Okay, but where is a card that is capable, and cardbus is not the same issue.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
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