On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:17:59PM +0530, Daniel Rodrick wrote: > I was curious that can we develop a generic disk driver that could > handle all the kinds of hard drives - IDE, SCSI, RAID et al? > > I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose, but > ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues. A BIOS only contains a better than nothing quality driver, take the VESA VLB driver as an example. And lacks portability, upgrading is a pain. Ralf -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
