Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.9 ide-probe and indentical old disks. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:31:17 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 22:47, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > It seems that some old disks don't have a serial number, but ide-probe > now compares serial numbers to determine if a slave disk is just a > ghost image of the primary. This breaks old hardware that has two > identical model disks which don't report serial numbers. The fix seems > as simple as checking for zero length serial numbers before comparing.
Already fixed
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