Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:48:18 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dirk GOUDERS <hank@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, muli@il.ibm.com, discuss@x86-64.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
       jdmason@kudzu.us, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this?
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote:
> 
> > Hm, so, to summarize:
> >   - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
> >   - you don't need this today
> > 
> > So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?
> 
> After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other
> persons I would not be inconvenienced if the option went away.
> 
> The system indeed did not boot correctly without that option, because
> the disks appeared in a wrong order.  On the other hand, I was able to
> (re)install bootloaders (grub as well as lilo) and after that did not
> need the option any more.  Unfortunately, after that I was not able to
> reproduce the initial situation where the option was needed.

Great, thanks a lot for testing this, and letting us know.

greg k-h
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