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Message-ID: <3138.1202932815@sora.hank.home>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:00:15 +0100
From: Dirk GOUDERS <hank@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc: bzolnier@...il.com, muli@...ibm.com, discuss@...-64.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
jdmason@...zu.us, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this?
> Hm, so, to summarize:
> - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
> - you don't need this today
>
> So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?
After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other
persons I would not be inconvenienced if the option went away.
The system indeed did not boot correctly without that option, because
the disks appeared in a wrong order. On the other hand, I was able to
(re)install bootloaders (grub as well as lilo) and after that did not
need the option any more. Unfortunately, after that I was not able to
reproduce the initial situation where the option was needed.
Dirk
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