Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > SCSI emulation support <snipped> > > Part way through is what you sent, at the end is what I sent. To me this > > particular passage is self-contradictory. At one point it says you can, and > > then goes on to say that you can't. Which portion am I to believe? > > I read this to mean that by default the native support will be used if > both are compiled into the kernel, and you can change the default by > using hdx=scsi.
Hhmmm ... I can see what you mean. Now, anyway. If I didn't suck so badly
at writing documentation I'd offer to write a clarification for this
particular entry. But as bad as I am at such things I'd probably wind up
making it worse. ::grin:: But I might take a whack at it anyway, as I still
feel the current entry to be too unclear about this.
> > Then there's the matter of whether it's hdx=scsi or hdx=ide-scsi One source
> > says one thing, another says another thing. What's more confusing is they
> > *both* *work*. You got your's right from the kernel docs - an authoratative
> > source, to be sure. I got mine from the CD-Writing HOWTO - not an
> > authoritative source, but it does work.
>
> drivers/ide/ide.c:
It doesn't get any more authoritative than this, does it? ::grin::
> [...]
> /*
> * Look for drive options: "hdx="
> */
> if (s[0] == 'h' && s[1] == 'd' && s[2] >= 'a' && s[2] <= max_drive) {
> const char *hd_words[] = {"none", "noprobe", "nowerr",
> "cdrom",
> "serialize", "autotune", "noautotune",
> "slow", "swapdata", "bswap", "flash",
> "remap", "noremap", "scsi", NULL};
> unit = s[2] - 'a';
> hw = unit / MAX_DRIVES;
> unit = unit % MAX_DRIVES;
> hwif = &ide_hwifs[hw];
> drive = &hwif->drives[unit];
> -> if (strncmp(s + 4, "ide-", 4) == 0) {
> -> strncpy(drive->driver_req, s + 4, 9);
> -> goto done;
> }
> [...]
>
> OK, apparently you can prepend any ide driver option with "ide-" and
> it will still work, so I guess we're both right (but my choice is
> clearly the preferred one :-).
Yes on all three counts - the ide-scsi works, we were both right, and your
choice is indeed the preferred. Next time I do a kernel compile I'll most
likely switch (if for no other reason than to be on the safe side in case
the ide-scsi option support goes away), but I probably won't bother changing
the lilo stanza for the current kernel.
--
Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and
| everything is of great understanding,
'91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the
Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.
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