Subject: Re: kern/22869: Slave IDE drive not detected
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/23/2003 18:03:23
>> Yes. I do have one.
>> However I just discovered that support for these in 1.5 and 1.6 is brocken
>> (or it may just be that I now test it in a faster machine).
> 
> No it's not. It's a typo, which is there since 23-Jun-99.
> It appeared sometime between 1.4 and 1.5.
>
> So, probably nobody tried this since 1.4, or if someone did he didn't tell us
> that it didn't work.

Actually, a couple of developers have pre-ATA Conner disks, which seem
to have worked with the bug.  I guess they were lucky.  :-)