Rajveer Singh said on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:43:25PM +0530,: > I've a confusion related to hard drive detection process by system BIOS. > This question may sound strange to some of you but I'll appreciate if I can > get any link or lead to explore it further. > > As all of us know, to detect hardrive, we must need a suitable driver for > hard disk in kernel. When we buy a new hard drive, if it's driver is not in > the kernel, it doesn't detect but system BIOS can read it's MBR. So I'm just > wondering, What machenism or techniques are used by BIOS so it doesn't > require any additional drivers to detect hard drives.
You mean the IDE / SATA / RAID chipset driver? AFAIK, disks themselves do not require any drivers. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
