Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:03:56 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt |
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote: > > In article <3C79435E.8030208@evision-ventures.com> you wrote: > > > > > >>linux ide driver anyway. And I think that 2.4.x and above don't run on > >>i386's anymore anyway. > >> > > > > it was about the i386 architecture, not just 80386 cpus. And yes 2.4 still > > runs on those; you'be surprised how many > > embedded systems run 80386 equivalents... > > Interresting. But do they still incorporate ST509 and other > archaic controllers? Or do they have broken BIOS-es which don't > setup the geometry information properly? I don't think so.
Actually you cannot connect an IDE drive to a ST509 harddrive controller. So that isn't handled by the IDE driver anyway and the change won't affect people using ST509 controllers.
> Well now I'm quite convinced. We can point those people to the legacy > single host driver anyway...
They have to use it anyway.
> And then the tradeoff goes just in favour of supporting more and more > common new hardware - it will just make more people happy than it will > make people loose :-).
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