From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Aleksey Gorelov <dared1st@yahoo.com>
Cc: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, daniel.rodrick@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org,
linux-newbie@vget.kernel.org, satinder.jeet@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:36:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156444573.3014.82.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060824181935.90856.qmail@web83102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 11:19 -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote:
> >From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> >[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jan Engelhardt
> >>
> >> I was curious that can we develop a generic disk driver that could
> >> handle all the kinds of hard drives - IDE, SCSI, RAID et al?
> >
> >ide_generic
> >sd_mod
> >
> >All there, what more do you want?
>
> Unfortunately, not _all_. DMRAID does not support all fake raids yet.
Hi,
it'll be easier and quicker to rev engineer 5 more formats than it will
be to get the bios thing working ;) And the performance of the bios
thing will be really really bad... (hint: real mode can access only 1Mb
of memory, so you will bounce buffer all IO's)
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-24 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 18:19 Generic Disk Driver in Linux Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 18:36 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-24 19:40 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 20:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24 22:21 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 8:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-25 16:50 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-24 20:36 ` Phillip Susi
2006-08-24 22:27 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 10:21 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-25 17:05 ` Aleksey Gorelov
2006-08-25 18:19 ` Greg Freemyer
2006-08-28 10:46 ` Helge Hafting
[not found] <fa.RkJMFmeAVY9kZAODCPJ1Yc8Vtww@ifi.uio.no>
2006-08-25 0:12 ` Robert Hancock
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2006-08-24 12:47 Daniel Rodrick
2006-08-24 13:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24 16:54 ` Ralf Baechle
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