On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: > Simple solution is to have kernel fall-back to LBA style > translations instead of kernel "basic" translations. > This would make it match the first two "BIOS" drives > on most systems, and not really hurt anything in most cases. > > Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, > which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation > info on ALL drives. We did that once Mark and people bitch as squealed like a stuck pig! Also, Linus is still on the line and holding that linux has a policy of not policies. Maybe a compile option could help... Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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