PREP Hardware goes IDE again

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Alois Fertl wrote:

> The second problem was that the partition table of a DOS IDE drive
> was not recognized unless I specified hda=swapdata at the boot prompt.
> IDE CD-Rom drives were not recognized at all. All the required coding
> to operate IDE devices correctly is already there but it is not used
> for PREP hardware. I changed ide.h so that PREP is handled the same
> way as CHRP. This makes IDE disks and CD-roms work without the need
> to specify boot options.

Indeed, I always wondered why this was this way. But not having any IDE
interface...

	Gabriel.


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