"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How about a kernel without IDE built in? I would like to use ide-scsi
> emulation (for my cdrom drive), but alas it only works if the IDE driver
> is NOT loaded.
this is not true. if you give hdX=ide-scsi to the kernel, it works
> Why not include the IDE driver as a loadable module and
> include it in an initrd image if the user's boot disk is IDE, exactly
> the same as I do with my bootable SCSI drive. I have the aic7xxx driver
> in my initrd image rather than linking into the kernel.
Yep, the problem with that is the kernel is not really made for this, and less
tested that way.
This is what i'm trying to do for the kernel boot and i don't get access to
/proc/ide/ideX for example
