Re: virgefb.c PATCH

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > BTW, ide-doubler fails to detect the third and fourth IDE drives.
> > > It tries, but gets garbage instead of the drive names.
> 
> peculiar...i get all 4 IDE devices working fine. what interface do you
> have? what does the 'report this!' value say for the driver interface?

The `report this' value is bogus. Trying to find electrons you sent out on the
wire isn't reliable and makes me thinks of finding dead cats in opaque boxes
:-)

If (irrealis) it would have been reliable, we could let it autosolve the
ide=doubler option logic.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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