Re: [PATCH] Minor message typo in ide-probe.c

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 13:17:26 EST


Thanks for addressing that on for me Andries.

Cheers,

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 04:52:05PM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote:
>
> > The patch below fixes a minor typo when the kernel displays the
> > following message during the IDE device probe.
>
> No, the patch introduces a buglet.
>
> > hd1: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
> > to say:
> > hdb: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
>
> But who says that hd1 from the BIOS is the same device
> as Linux hdb? If the disk that Linux calls hdb is not
> listed in the BIOS setup, then hd1 might be hdc or hdd.
> It might even be a SCSI disk.
>
> Andries
>
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