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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:58:57 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Fix IDE initialization when we don't probe for interrupts.
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> Another trick is the `IDE doubler' for Amiga (but I guess you can make it work
> on any IDE interface): with a few diodes you can map the second bank of 8 IDE
> registers to a second IDE chain, doubling the number of devices you can
> attach.

Does Linux actually support that, (on any architecture)?

I was just imagining a RAID array on laptops which only have one IDE controller...

John.