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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Fabian Frederick <Fabian.Frederick@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: Ide special case
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:49:17 +0200
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On Friday 16 of April 2004 23:48, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I was looking at some IDE sources and I'm surprised to see a lot of
> pdc4030 special cases even in high level sources....Is there a reason
> for that ? (I dunno that hardware :( ).

Yes.  Hardware is non-standard and IDE chipset drivers are not
(this is slowly changing) real host drivers like SCSI chipset drivers.

Bartlomiej