Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 19:31, Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
wrote:
> One solution may be to remove this test from the IDE subsystem and force
> users with buggy hardware to explicitly  disable probing for a second
> device.  I think the parameters hdx=none or hdx=noprobe should work for
> them.

I'm inclined to agree about this in the absence of very good reasons why
not. The combination is found on several systems nowdays