On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:09:47PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> Does INT13/INT19 Bios call mean anything?
To me, no. I do not know anything about IDE. :)
I thought we were talking about SCSI PCI drivers here.
> The problem is how do you deal with multiple HOSTs given there drivers are
> not (have not checked lately) capable of discrete HOST addition and
> removal.
>
> SCSI/ATA share the same problem IIRC, the host/chipset drivers load all
> the device hosts who match that driver code.
>
> What am I missing?
Nothing. It is the same problem for IDE PCI drivers. In order for PCI
Hotplug to work on these devices, they have to implement the 2.4 pci
interface. If they do that, they work with PCI hotplug systems. If
they do not, they don't.
thanks,
greg k-h
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