--- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 probably true - I'm actually not great fan of originally proposed approach. But, unfortunately, manufactures and vendors still look more to MS. Until market situation changes, there is always a gap... > thing will be really really bad... (hint: real mode can access only 1Mb > of memory, so you will bounce buffer all IO's) This is true for non-dma case only. As I already mentioned before, most BIOSes support dma, and there is no 1Mb limit for that (at least on modern hw). Aleks. > > 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/
