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From: "Daniel Rodrick" <daniel.rodrick@gmail.com>
Subject: Generic Disk Driver in Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:17:59 +0530
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Hi List,

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?

I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose, but
ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Dan.