Re: [Etherboot-developers] typo #2

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Adam Sulmicki <ad...@cf...> writes:

> > > -	 *   This case will not be deteced except by timeing out but
> > > +	 *   This case will not be deteced except by timing out but
> > He got one, missed the other one.
> 
> cool, thanks.
> 
> Now more practical question. How much use that ide code got in
> practice? Going over it seems a bit rough on edges and somewhat
> unfinished.

Well I am using it a few places in production.  Except for the spelling
errors which don't affect how the code executes there are no outstanding
bug reports.

It works on compact flash devices, and regular ide disks.

It is probably rough simply because it was the first real disk driver
for etherboot.  The floppy driver is actually much worse.  It only
seems to work under linuxbios.  But the ide disk driver should be
generally useful.

The only code path I haven't had a chance to test is LBA48 support for
very large drives.  My current largest drive comes in just under that
limit.

Eric