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

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:08:51 +0100


On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Oh and it is only useful for borken things like LINBIOS and other
> > braindead systems like ARM that violate the 31 second rule of POST.
>
> Is the 31 second rule defined for the PC or for IDE?

It's in the ATA specs.

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