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| author | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> | 2004-06-04 23:00:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2004-06-04 23:00:55 -0700 |
| commit | 8cf715b345651dac31ec7d6451d36bbe06807358 (patch) | |
| tree | ed51655b8694251cc7b3f045d4ebf7dbcf2fbd53 /Documentation | |
| parent | da5aad2ecc57ce268b3f8421ac5e1cd759982c66 (diff) | |
| download | history-8cf715b345651dac31ec7d6451d36bbe06807358.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] ide: change CONFIG_IDEDISK_STOKE to a runtime option
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To be useful for distribution kernels it needs to be a runtime option.
The original patch is from Joerg Platte via the Debian kernel package,
with some adjustments from me (and me too - Bart).
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ide.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide.txt index 07811d2df5576..58853a4ef4f06 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide.txt @@ -248,6 +248,13 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option. + "hdx=stroke" : Should you have a system w/ an AWARD Bios and your + drives are larger than 32GB and it will not boot, + one is required to perform a few OEM operations first. + The option is called "stroke" because it allows one + to "soft clip" the drive to work around a barrier + limit. + "idebus=xx" : inform IDE driver of VESA/PCI bus speed in MHz, where "xx" is between 20 and 66 inclusive, used when tuning chipset PIO modes. |