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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:50:18 +0100
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:53:57 +0300
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> This was the oldest and most limited of the three IDE drivers we ship.

NAK - it isn't just an IDE driver it's an MFM/RLL driver as well. It's
one of the few things suitable for rescuing ancient drives so should be
retained.