Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread alex
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0700, Tim Riker wrote: > Andre, > > What are the "laptops that have CFA devices that do not come on channels > in a pair" systems you refer to? I assume he's referring to flash devices which show up as an IDE bus with only a master and no slave, and don't hand

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread Tim Riker
Andre, What are the "laptops that have CFA devices that do not come on channels in a pair" systems you refer to? This patch fixes the iopener and other systems here at Lineo that have 2nd drive flash. The only other way we have been booting these is with "hdb=noprobe" which just disables the 2nd

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread alex
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:47:35PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Basically if the setting of > > * "hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be > * registered. In most cases, only one device > * will be prese

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
Basically if the setting of * "hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be * registered. In most cases, only one device * will be present. fails then I will look into this but, the breaking of laptops that hav

[patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-11 Thread alex
It's been a few months (and a couple of kernel releases) since I mentioned this before and it doesn't look like it's made it in, and I haven't seen any more comments on it in the list archives, so I'm bringing it up again in case it just got forgotten about somewhere along the line.. As I remembe