Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
19 Aug 2002 20:21:00 +0100


On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 19:31, Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
wrote:
> One solution may be to remove this test from the IDE subsystem and force
> users with buggy hardware to explicitly disable probing for a second
> device. I think the parameters hdx=none or hdx=noprobe should work for
> them.

I'm inclined to agree about this in the absence of very good reasons why
not. The combination is found on several systems nowdays

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