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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:44:44 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt
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Hi!

> >Pity - noncompressed is better, now only people with too much time
> >will look at it.
> >
> >There is something else one might do.
> >In ide-geometry.c there is the routine probe_cmos_for_drives().
> >Long ago I already wrote "Eventually the entire routine below
> >should be removed". I think this is the proper time to do this.
> >
> >This probe is done only for the i386 architecture, and only
> >for the first two IDE disks, and only influences their geometry.
> >It has been a pain - for example, it gives the first two disks
> >a different geometry from the others, which is inconvenient
> >when one want a RAID of identical disks.
> >
> Basically I lend toward your arguments. I think too that a bios based
> detection is already right and then we have now the ide-skip kernel
> parameter which is allowing to exclude a drive from handling by the 
> linux ide driver anyway. And I think that 2.4.x and above don't run on
> i386's anymore anyway.

I sure hope they do.

I run 2.4.x on 486sx, which is .... pretty close to 386. 386 support
is not going to get dropped anytime soon...
									Pavel
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