Messages in this thread |  | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller | Date | 22 Aug 2002 13:41:24 GMT |
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In article <A9713061F01AD411B0F700D0B746CA6802FC1464@vacho6misge.cho.ge.com>, Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC) <Daniel.Heater@gefanuc.com> wrote:
| OK. hdc=flash works where hdc=hard drive and hdd=CompactFlash. | | Thanks Padraig. | | I guess it's 6 of one, half-dozen the other, but telling the kernel that my | hard drive is a flash drive just makes me feel squidgy! I'm still inclined | to suggest that the test that _prevents_ hard drive + CF configuration is no | longer appropriate now that _some_ (most??) hardware vendors have figured | out how to get ide-flash devices to work without "hanging" when no second | device is present. Users with incompatible hardware can still prevent the | long system hang by using hdx=none.
I think that traditionally people with broken hardware have been the ones to use parameters to warn the kernel about them. I certainly have run some ill-behaved hardware that way ;-) Since there is now and will be in the future more correct systems than broken, it would seem that the default would be to work with correct systems.
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