Re: Aralion and IDE blasphemy

[Alan Cox]

> This is probably approaching blasphemy, but has anyone ever considered
> an emergency EIDE driver that uses the extended int13h calls?

Its not worth the pain. It was done by Adam J Richter before 1.0 in
fact and is long dead

> I'm pretty sure there's a protected-mode BIOS interface in modern BIOSes
> these days, so it shouldn't need to go down to real mode to make the
> calls.

Not a useful one

> The culprit is an ARALION ARS106S chipset card.  Interestingly it works
> in DOS, and if the hard disks are attached to it, it will even boot

What does lspci say the chipset really is ?

Alan