Re: 2.1.93..
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:25:21 +0100 (BST)
> > With BusLogic SCSI and Mylex DAC960 boards that have their own BIOS there is a
> > more fundamental issue: the BIOS itself iterates using the PCI BIOS function in
> > order to determine the order of board recognition (and hence which device to
> > boot from), and this information *must* be available to the driver.
>
> That's poor setup feature IMHO. You should suggest Mylex guys to offer
> a boot order setup for their products. This will avoid Linux to provide
> historical silly things.
Having the option is useful but for 99.9999% of users the Buslogics just
work. What is proposed is to screw every single 2.0 Linux user who has
two scsi controllers and _completely_ un-neccessarily. Even Bill and co would
think twice about that sort of stuff
Alan
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