On 23 Feb 1999, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> think Linux will like that. Not even on hardware built to be more
> error-tolerant than the usual x86 junk. And in any case, a subtle
In my experience, x86 "junk" is usually more the exception than the rule,
at least nowadays. As with anything else, though, you (usually) get what
you pay for.
> LILO) on the first disk? If that disk is completely dead, fine, it'll
> try the next one, but if it's just returning corrupt data? (Never mind
> IDE hardware that would even handle the completely-dead case).
If the completly-dead case didn't cause problems for other drives on the
IDE bus:
I've seen motherboards that do IDE auto-detect and would boot from the
secondary channel even when nothing was found on the primary channel
(Award BIOS). I know the Linux kernel can handle this situation.
I also think, but I cannot remember for sure, that I've seen motherboards
that do IDE auto-detect and would boot from a slave drive even when no
master was found (also Award BIOS). I think the Linux kernel can also
handle this situation.
These discoveries were all made by me after I looked at some machines
which were set up by someone who didn't quite understand IDE..
Brian
