From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: mlord@pobox.com, rupa-list+linux-kernel@rupa.com
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, andre@linux-ide.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ole@linpro.no
Subject: Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:15:15 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200101312315.AAA19635.aeb@vlet.cwi.nl> (raw)
Mark Lord writes:
> Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back,
> which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation
> info on ALL drives.
It doesn't work.
I wrote the code and asked people to test it.
So many BIOS quirks.
(Numbering of drives depends on setup options, and on whether
there are SCSI disks mentioned in the BIOS setup,
there are off-by-one errors in several BIOSes,
several versions of Phoenix extensions are implemented etc.
It is really not worth trying to go this way. It fails.)
No, geometry does not exist, and also BIOS drivers have come
to the same conclusion.
Since nothing depends on it, there is no reason to want
any geometry in particular.
Andries
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 23:15 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
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2001-01-31 23:08 Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-31 16:43 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-31 17:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 19:33 ` Rupa Schomaker
2001-01-31 20:03 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01 6:05 ` Rupa Schomaker
2001-02-01 8:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 20:04 ` Mark Lord
2001-01-31 20:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 20:55 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-31 21:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01 9:44 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-31 16:02 Ole Aamot
2001-01-31 16:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 16:57 ` Paul Flinders
2001-01-31 17:47 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01 14:15 ` Matthias Andree
2001-02-01 15:03 ` Paul Flinders
2001-02-01 17:45 ` Andre Hedrick
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