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SubjectRe: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Yeah, theoretically, you're right. The problem is that what breaks when
>> things go wrong. If you don't probe generic ports by default, harddisks
>> won't be detected on some legacy systems but you can always prompt the
>> user about loading the generic driver. If you probe generic ports by
>> default, when things go wrong, you break modern machines in an
>> unrecoverable (w/o reset) way. I'd rather choose bothering the user on
>> legacy machines.
>
> The problem here is determining whether a machine is "legacy" or not.
> So far in this discussion I've seen no suggestions how to do that (except
> maybe for my test whether /sys/bus/isa is present), which would mean asking
> _all_ users, and that's a damned ugly option.

Asking when no harddisk is detected w/ the option to choose it
explicitly should do for most cases. No?

--
tejun


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