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Subject: Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Heater, Daniel (IndSys, " "GEFanuc, VMIC)" 
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On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 19:31, Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
wrote:
> One solution may be to remove this test from the IDE subsystem and force
> users with buggy hardware to explicitly  disable probing for a second
> device.  I think the parameters hdx=none or hdx=noprobe should work for
> them.

I'm inclined to agree about this in the absence of very good reasons why
not. The combination is found on several systems nowdays

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