Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751216AbWHXMsB (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:48:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751220AbWHXMsB (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:48:01 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:16733 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751216AbWHXMsA (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:48:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=G85RpaZJqI7VcsFD55nJou2mAgEWKV+KhYBXydyGFC9S+tXIQiuLcqGRKw6eVAkJ4CD8ct0th741BfbnUnPMNXhO6PKJvvcLEjNdySm2D3nr+MuKRg4qTggg5lvmWyRzoEWY/mT/yNuiTdZ3nhhhfnA89O9KP9EATsBK3GwmAhw= Message-ID: <292693080608240547w394bacc4l2410b6eba98d950b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:17:59 +0530 From: "Daniel Rodrick" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies , linux-newbie@vget.kernel.org Subject: Generic Disk Driver in Linux Cc: satinder.jeet@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 537 Lines: 18 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/