Re: Generic Disk Driver in Linux

[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?

> I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose,
>
I fail to see a BIOS on non-x86 computers.

> but ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues.
>
Sure. We are not real mode.
Ever heard of BIOS limitations? If no, first check out 
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html



Jan Engelhardt
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