Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:03:56 +0100

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 :-).

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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