>
> Isn't this exactly what Tiara have done?  Their hacked-up grub uses direct
> IO (polled, I guess) to communicate with any IDE devices, as far as I could
> tell from looking at the code, anyway.
>

Yes, essentially. But they did it in such a way to kind of hard to follow
and rather specific to one motherboard. This approach should alleviate
those problems. I ended up using their polled ide code in the end as mine
proved to be somewhat buggy, for that I am greateful.

- adam

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