RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux

[Arjan van de Ven]

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

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