On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 11:19 -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote: > >From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Engelhardt > >> > >> 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? > > > >ide_generic > >sd_mod > > > >All there, what more do you want? > > Unfortunately, not _all_. DMRAID does not support all fake raids yet. Hi, it'll be easier and quicker to rev engineer 5 more formats than it will be to get the bios thing working ;) And the performance of the bios thing will be really really bad... (hint: real mode can access only 1Mb of memory, so you will bounce buffer all IO's) Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
