Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751415AbWHXNM1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:12:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751440AbWHXNM1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:12:27 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:30158 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751415AbWHXNM0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:12:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:10:33 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Daniel Rodrick cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies , linux-newbie@vget.kernel.org, satinder.jeet@gmail.com Subject: Re: Generic Disk Driver in Linux In-Reply-To: <292693080608240547w394bacc4l2410b6eba98d950b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <292693080608240547w394bacc4l2410b6eba98d950b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 28 > > 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? > I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose, > I fail to see a BIOS on non-x86 computers. > but ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues. > Sure. We are not real mode. Ever heard of BIOS limitations? If no, first check out http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/