Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751282AbWHYIEm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:04:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751270AbWHYIEm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:04:42 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:4283 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263AbWHYIEL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:04:11 -0400 Subject: RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux From: Arjan van de Ven To: Aleksey Gorelov Cc: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, daniel.rodrick@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, satinder.jeet@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20060824222136.49055.qmail@web83114.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060824222136.49055.qmail@web83114.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:03:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1156493021.3032.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 28 On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:21 -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote: > > --- Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > probably true - I'm actually not great fan of originally proposed approach. But, > > > unfortunately, manufactures and vendors still look more to MS. Until market > > > situation changes, there is always a gap... > > > > there are only so many different ways to describe raid0. > > And those companies aren't going to keep changing that "just because", > > changing costs them money, so there is an incentive for them to keep it > > as is > > Bottom line is - today there is lack of support for it, can you name one? (so far all you did was claim this but not name even one) - 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/