Re: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133 Promise ctrlr, or...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 17:38:42 EST

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 21:35, D.A.M. Revok wrote:
> So. I /think/ that somehow the Promise controller isn't being
> initialized properly by the Linux kernel, UNLESS the mobo's BIOS inits
> it first?

In some situations yes. The BIOS does stuff including fixups we mere
mortals arent permitted to know about.

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