> Hm, so, to summarize: > - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly > - you don't need this today I would summarize: - ide=reverse solved certain problems and I am not sure if there are users who still need this option > So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced? I remember that the disks of the old box are still in a drawer and today, I will try to reanimate the system and see if grub's ability to map drives helps to boot the system without ide=reverse. I'll report later. Dirk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html