From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:36:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1156444573.3014.82.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20060824181935.90856.qmail@web83102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: arjan@infradead.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060824181935.90856.qmail@web83102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Aleksey Gorelov 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 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